Latrobe Valley Express Wednesday 16 November 2022

By MICHELLE SLATER

THE Latrobe Valley is copping another banking blow, with ANZ, another of the ‘big four banks’, withdrawing from Moe next year.

ANZ has confirmed it will close itsMoe branch as from April 2023.

ANZdistrictmanager,Minh Vuong, said 80 percent of Moe customers were using online and mobile banking.

Mr Vuong said in-branch transactions had slumped by half in the past four years.

“We have personallywritten to our Moe customers to helpthem with alternate banking options and our relationship bankers continue to visit many of our business customers at their locations and are also available on the phone and online,” Mr Vuong said.

“Customers can visit our Traralgon

branch for their face-face banking needs and they can also use the ATMX network at no charge and ATMs operated by the othermajor banks, fee-free.”

Mr Vuongalsosuggested customers could access cash from major supermarkets’ EFTPOS systems.

However, the Finance SectorUnion has slammed the decision, stating branch closures hada“devastating” impact on small towns and regional centres.

FSU national secretary,Julia Angrisano, said it also unfairly affected those forcedtotravel further to do their banking over the counter.

“Residents in regional areascould decide to close accounts when aparticu lar bankleaves and movetoone that continues to have alocal presence,” Ms Angrisano said.

“Howeverweknow from bitter experience that when one bank closes other often follow, sometimes leaving towns without any local banking services.”

Ms Angrisano said banksshould be requiredtoprovide aminimumlevel of service to customers and “stopcannibalising their local branch network”.

Shesaidthe union was also calling on the federal government to inquire into the provision of local banking services, particularly in regional areas.

“Don’t believe the banks when they claim customers prefer banking online,” Ms Angrisano said.

“Our members tell us that the numbers of over the counter transactions in abranch often have limits placed upon them and oncethatlimit is reached, customers are takentoa computer inside the branch or to an ATM and shown how to do their banking online.”

Latrobe City Council has been told that all ANZ Moe staff will be retained and relocated to Traralgon.

ALatrobe City spokesperson said council still encouraged the community to bank with existing local branches, or use online and Australia Post’s Bank@ Post services where available.

“Council remains open to working alongside banks to ensure local communitiesremain empowered as services change,” the spokesperson said.

“While it is understandable that these decisions aren’t made lightly by corporate banks and there has been a significant shift towards online banking for many customers -accessremains paramount; “particularly for community members that may face certain barriers and small businesses that require cash float and deposit facilities.”

photograph liam durkin

New mayorvote after state poll

By MICHELLE SLATER

LATROBE City Council has deferred this week’s scheduled mayoral election until afterthe outcome of the state election on November 26.

Latrobe City councillors were supposed to elect anew mayor and deputy mayor on Monday, November 14.

The date is beingpushed-back until the seat of Morwell has been declared due to the number of LatrobeCitycouncillors contestingthe local electorate in the state election.

Three councillors are standingfor the seat

of Morwell,including Liberal candidate Dale Harriman and independents Tracie Lund and Sharon Gibson.

But it meansthey muststep-down from their position as councillors while the election is under way.

Councillorschoose anew mayorand deputy annually as part of requirements under the Local Government Act.

Cr Graeme Middlemiss moved the motion at last week’s ordinary council meeting in order to allow the maximum number of councillors to choose

the next mayor.

“At themoment, three councillors have indicated they will be standingfor the election, 33 per centof councillors cannot attend next week’s meeting to elect amayor and deputy mayor,” Cr Middlemiss said.

“In my view, an election that deprives athird of people from avote is not really asolid foundation for adecent vote. I’m also consciousthat these three councillors represent athird of the community.” Latrobe City will set adate, which will be no later than December 21.

First work starts on magnesium plant

By MICHELLE SLATER

CONSTRUCTION has started on aworld-first magnesium frombrown coal fly ash plant being built on Tramway Road in Hazelwood North.

Latrobe Magnesium has begun civil works for its$40 million dollar demonstration plant, with production slated to start mid-next year.

LMG chief executive, David Paterson, said they had started installing concrete slabsready for major equipment to start arriving in January.

Mr Paterson said recruitment should start in March to fill the 40 ongoing jobs that will be needed to operate the 100-tonnes ayear demonstration plant.

He said the company was already in talks with EnergyAustralia to potentially re-deploy workers fromthe Yallourn PowerStation when it shuts in 2028.

LMG has signed a20-year contract with EnergyAustralia to use Yallourn fly ash to manufacture magnesium.

The company AIMS to upscale the plant to a

largercommercial operation making 10,000 tonnes of magnesium ayear if the demonstration plant is viable.

He said he expected there was 50-years of supply from Yallourn, with more available at Hazelwood.

“We will be working on that landfill at Yallourn now. There is 10-million tonnes in there, but we won’t be able to take all of that out as it would destabilise the hill that’s there,”MrPaterson said Mr Paterson said the global demand for lowemissions magnesium was expected to double by 2027tomake lightweightsheeting for vehicles and components.

He said LMG planned to achieve net zero emissions by then and was negotiating with the proponents of the Morwell Solar Farm to power theplant with renewables.

“There will be other projects that will come to the Valley because of thishere.Weare getting interest from the big aluminium and die-cast players,” he said.

“You can’t tell me these people would not come here if we offered them the tonnage.”

High-tech partner for mill

OCO Technology, which creates carbon negative aggregate usingcarbon dioxidetotreat flue gas fromburningwaste, has joinedthe Maryvale ‘Energy from Waste’ (EfW) project.

This puts Opal, operators of the Maryvale Paper Mill, astepcloser to being able to create energy to help drive its mill by burning waste otherwise destined to be buried somewhere.

It will also help protect Opal from gas prices on the Australian market,bolsteringthe paper mill’s sustainability.

The two companies, or what is now considered aconsortium, have signed a‘development agreement’.

Accordingtothe agreement, OCO would construct the Maryvale ‘accelerated carbonation technology’ facility to process flue gas treatment residues from the Maryvale EfW facility.

OCO treats the flue residues with carbon dioxide to create the world’s first carbon-negative aggregate named M-LS, which can then be used in the constructionindustry, helpingtoreduce the carbon footprint of the construction sector.

This technology has been deployed in the United Kingdom by OCO for more than adecade.

OCO treats more than 180,000 tonnes of thermal residues per annum –currently more than 35 per cent of the UK market share.

Withseveralglobal ventures rapidly developing, the business is keen to deploy its innovative technology in Australia.

The partnership meansthe EfWfacility is targeting 99-per-cent landfill diversion by reusing

by-productsthatare producedduring the EfW process, in line with the principles of the circular economy.

Basically what is not incineratedwillbecon verted into building aggregate, further limiting the centre’s carbon footprint.

The facility attached to the EfW project would be co-located in the Latrobe Valley and would create carbon negative product for the Victorian construction industry.

Speaking on behalf of theconsortium, Opal corporate development and strategic projects general manager, David Jettner, said the Maryvale EfW project had achievedanother notable first in Victoria.

“EfW facilities are aproven and reliable solution thatderivevaluable energy from non-recyclable residual waste”, Mr Jettner said.

“Consistent with our best-practice approach, the processing and recycling of ash residues to achieve 99-per-cent landfill diversion, derived by the Maryvale EfW facility, is now within reach for Victoria.

“We are delighted to bring OCO Technology’s innovative world-class solution to Victoria.”

OCO Technology managing director, Steve Greig, said OCO had been operating in the UK for more than10years,and had diverted more than750,000 tonnes of waste from landfill. This had provided more than two million tonnes of carbon negative aggregate into the masonry and general construction market,permanently capturing 70,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Light metal: Latrobe Magnesium chiefexecutive David Paterson with amagnesium ingot made from browncoal flyash

photograph michelle slater

By MICHELLE SLATER

LATROBE Valley Sustainability Group has re-ignited its push for Latrobe City to update its climate change policy, which was developed more than adecade ago.

The group has presented Latrobe City with a petition containing more than330 signaturesurg ing council to review its 2010 Position on Climate Change and its Impacts.

Latrobe Cityhad agreedtoreview the document in March 2020, but so far has not updated its position statement.

The 10-point statement includes an acknowledgement that climate change is real and recognises international scientific consensus that climate change is influencedprincipally by human activities.

It also stated that Latrobe City is committed to greenhouse gas reduction goals and any response to climate changehas the potential to driveinnovation in industry and the community.

Latrobe Valley Sustainability Group treasurer, LorraineBull, said councilwas overdue to update

Moving with times Ayear

the policy in the midst of increasingclimate change impacts on the Valley.

Ms Bullsaidinthe past10years,the Valleyhas been affected by bushfires,prolonged drought, extreme storms leaving residents isolated for days and repeated flooding in Traralgon.

“Since 2010 we’ve had alot of movementin renewables and increased knowledge around climate change and emissions,” Ms Bull said.

“We need aclear and concise statement we can point to that say these are the targets and goals and how we can get there.”

Ms Bull said aclear policy wouldencourage sustainabilityactions including on renewables, electric vehicles, urbangreening, community gardens, housing design and regenerative agriculture

“These are things council can do to help us deal with achanging climate,” she said.

“We want Latrobe City to lead the community, whichisbeing impacted by climate change,inthe closures of the coal economy.”

Latrobe City will prepare areport on the petition that will be presented at council’s December meeting.

gone by,council’splans

LATROBE Cityhas issued more than 370 planning permits with atotal value of nearly $500 million in the past year, according to the council’s latest annual report released last week.

Latrobe has also been able to deliver all its services despitechallenges from storms, flood recovery and global crises, says the 2021-22 annual report, whichlooks at its performance measures for the past financial year.

It also marked the first year of reporting on actions from the 2021-25 Council Plan and community vision, which was developed in 2021.

Apart from permits, other key achievements included completing the $42.1 million Gippsland Performing Arts Centre in March and delivering $41.66 million in capital works projectsthroughout the municipality.

More people were using the Latrobe City libraries borrowing nearly220,000 items, or a26.3per cent

increase on the previous year due to extended closures.

Latrobe Citymayor, Kellie O’Callaghan,encouraged the community to review the annual report, whichexamined council operations and reflects on how its work connected communities.

Cr O’Callaghan also cited the adoption of council’s four-yearLiving Well Latrobemunicipalpublic health and wellbeing plan.

“Our achievementsare also the community’s achievements, and throughout the year we have celebrated some significant projects together from sporting club and community facility upgrades to the opening of the Gippsland Performing Arts Centre,” Cr O’Callaghan said.

“We look forward to continuing with the momentum of thepastyear as we deliver the Council Plan and Community Vision, ensuring economic prosperity as Latrobe City transitions to anew energy future.”

Petitoner: Latrobe ValleySustainabilityGroup treasurer Lorraine Bullhas presented apetition to Latrobe City asking it to update its climatechanepolicies photograph michelle slater

Strategy revealed

By MICHELLE SLATER

AVICTORIAN government air qualitystrategy to support communities disproportionately affected by air pollution has left out the Latrobe Valley in favour of the western suburbs.

The Air Quality Strategy sets out aseven-year plan on how the stategovernmentwill reduceand tackle air pollution.

Thestrategy looks at the state’s main sources of air pollution, which include industry, wood heaters, motor vehicles and planned burns.

It found that the industrial sector contributes up to 43 per cent of air pollution state-wide, and pollutionisdisproportionately generated in areas whereindustry is concentrated.

It also states that the burning fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity, is abig source of greenhouse gas emissions and of various air pollutants.

Thestrategy alsofoundreducing air pollution from coal-fired power stations by 2030 wouldsave Victoria $2 billion in health costs.

Butthe strategy focussesonpockets of metropolitan Melbourne, where the state government

is aiming to spend $2.84 million an establishing Air Quality Improvement Precinct.

These precincts will be based in the inner and outer west of the citytoreduce localised PM10 and PM2.5 air pollution.

Voices of the Valley spokesperson, Wendy Farmer, said the state government should have included Latrobe Valleyasa critical region to address the “toxic pollution we breathe in every dayfromcoal-burningpowerstations”.

“This is not aplan for all Victorians,” Ms Farmer said.

“Our community has poweredVictoria for decades, and our community shoulders ahuge healthburdenfrom breathing toxic air as aresult.

“It’s time for our elected representatives to step up for the Latrobe Valley community and really provide clean air for all because breathing is non-negotiable.”

The Victorian government is phasing out coalfired power stations by 2035 and has stated it has tightened the rules on air pollution from the Valley’s coal plants.

Greens want cap on pokies

THE Greens are aiming to tackle problem gambling by making it easier to walk awayfromthe pokies

The Greensare hoping to cap winnings at $100 at the machine, and winningspayable by acashier at $250, with additional winnings being payable only by cheque.

The policy also includes $1 bet limit per spin on all machines, a$20 machine load-up limit and $500 jackpot limit, as recommended by the Productivity Commission.

Cashwithdrawalatpokies venues would also be banned as it includesfree food and drink, incentivising gambling.,

The policy comes as the Latrobe Valley community lost more than $122,000 on pokies per day in 2020-2021. The average amount spent on pokies per adult was $435.

Latrobe City has aregional cap of 522poker machine entitlements, but there are 521 machines operating in the municipality.Italsohas the 27th highest pokies expenditure in Victoria.

Yallourn North local Libby Mitchellspoke about the “agony” of pokies addiction and its impact on individualsand families, but said she was too ashamed to seek help.

“I was ayoung, active, hard-working single mum when Ifirst used apoker machine for fun. Ihad no idea then that pokies were designed to be so addictive,” she said..

“If anybody had told me that Icould become hypnotized by amachine that would control my mind for years and drive me to the brink of suicide, Iwould have thought they were mad.”

VictorianGreens candidate for Morwell, Rochelle Hine, said the government shouldact to minimise exploitation.

“People are entitledtochoose to gamble, however self-regulation and voluntary codes of conduct have failed to protect public interest,” Dr Hine said.

“Problemgambling is aserious healthissue thatnegatively affects individuals, families and communities.”

Mine fire hurt babies

BABIES exposed to Hazelwood coal mine fire smoke were overrepresented in emergency department visits for allergies,rashes,respiratorysymptoms and infections,according to new research.

The Hazelwood Health Study found that in-utero babies whose mums were exposed to mine fire smoke could have been affected by particles crossing the placental barrier into the foetal circulation.

Thestudy’s LatrobeEarly Life Follow-upstream focussed on pregnantmums in the 2014minefire, and bubs aged 12 months or under.

It found thatbabieswere more likely to be taken to the emergency departments for allergies or skin rashes in their first year of life if their mumswere exposed to the highest levels of smoke.

This was compared with babies from mothers who hadlesser or no exposuretominefiresmoke Infantsaged 12 months or lesswho were directly exposed to the smoke particles were more likely to be taken to the emergency department for respiratoryconditionsand infections in the 12 months following the mine fire.

The Hazelwood Health Study carriedout the study in collaboration with the CSIRObymeasuring airborne PM2.5 particlesinthe mine fire smoke that were less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter.

The ELF stream obtained anonymous Victorian EmergencyDepartment and hospital admission data for all babies born in the Latrobe Valley before, during and shortly after the 2014 mine fire.

However, ELF study dataanalystleader Myriam Ziou said that the findings need to be treatedwith some caution.

“It’s not possible to know whether the smoke fromthe minefirecaused an increaseinallergies, rashes, respiratory symptoms and infections in infants, or whether the parents of smoke exposed infants were more worried about their children’s health and more likely to seek emergency medical care forminor ailments,” she said.A separate part of the study included 500 families with smoke exposed children who were recruited in 2017 to participate in three rounds of clinicalinvestigations looking at their lung and heart health.

Push for post-office bank

By MICHELLE SLATER

LATROBE City Councilwill be asking federal MPstoback aBillthat would establish apost office people’s bank, in the wake of branch closures across the region.

Cr Melissa Ferguson raised amotion at Latrobe City’s November meeting to ask MPs to support the Commonwealth Postal Savings Bank Bill, which is being backed by the Katter Australia Party.

The Bill will seek to establish aCommonwealth government-owned banking corporation that would be operated through post offices, and offer afull suite of banking services, including loans.

It comes as ANZ has announceditwill be closing its Moe branch in April next year, off the back of nearly every back branch being closed in Morwell and others disappearing from outlying towns.

“It’s getting harder for people to access their cash and it’s so important for our community groups to do their banking on alocal level,” Cr Ferguson said.

“Little family-run businesses and markets all depend on these structures and the availability

of cash, and not everyone has transport to get to these larger branches.”

Cr Sharon Gibsonpointed to the number of branch closures in the Valley.

“This is not fair on businesses either but it’s happeningaswedon’t have banks open,”CrGibson said.

“When youhaven’t gotaccess to abanking institution that you are amember of, it makes it very difficult.”

However, the Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, said the Bill had not been introduced to parliament, and it wouldbe“inappropriate” for him to make statement without first seeing it.

Mr Chestersaidboth the federal government and opposition supported astrongand well-regulated private banking system in Australia.

“If the Bill is introduced to parliament Iwill review it and listen to the electorate before reaching any decision,” Mr Chester said.

“I understand the concerns around accessibility to banking services with recent bank closures in the Latrobe Valley.”

Closure sparksattackfromBlackwood

By PHILIP HOPKINS

NATIVE timber harvesting in Victoria has stopped afterarulinglast week in the SupremeCourt, prompting asavageaccusation by the Liberals GaryBlackwood on what he termed the Andrew government’s culpability.

VicForestsorderedthe stand-down,after Justice Melinda Richards ruled in acase involving Environment East Gippsland that the state-owned enterprise’s pre-harvest surveys were inadequate and it was not doing enough to protect two pos sumspecies -greater and yellow-belliedgliders, TimberBiz reported.

VicForests chief executive, Monique Dawson, said the order was permanent, and it wascomprehensive.

“We’ve got some limited operations in some areas where therearen’t any (gliders) so we’ll keep doing what we can do. But certainly, the impact of the order is profound,” she told TimberBiz.

The ruling forces VicForests to resurvey hundreds of coupes, which it confirmed would take months to complete and would leave harvest and haulage contractors without work and deepen asawlog shortage that has already led to one mill to close.

Justice Richards also ruled that VicForests had failed to meet its obligations to retain enough vegetation on coupes to protect gliders, under the precautionary principle of the Code of Practice for Timber Production. Her preference was to retain three hectares arounda possumsighting and retain

60 per cent of the trees in the rest of the coupe.

Mr Blackwood, the retiring Memberfor Narracan and the Opposition forestry spokesman, said VicForests hadtoceaseoperations pending their appeal against the ruling.

“This is adisgraceful indictment on the Andrews government, who have been lobbied for months to adjustthe CodeofForestPractice so thatitreflected exactlywhathas been in place to protect the Greater Glider for many years,” he said.

“VicForests have been working to aprescription thatgivesgreater oversight to Greater Glider habitat for some years. Asimple and transparent inclusion in the Code of this prescription and reference to the precautionary principle would have closed the loophole that activists use to support third party litigation.”

Mr Blackwood said the stategovernment had had plenty of time to fix this issue and save hundreds of timber workers and their families from massive hardship.

“And nowright on Christmas they are faced with theworstsituation possible. Icannot think of any government in our history that hasdestroyed livelihoods for political expediency as the Andrews government has,” he said.

Ms Dawson said VicForests was already only undertaking limited operations anyway because of the court’s previous orders.

“But the orders are very broad because they’re

for all areas of the state where there are greater gliders or yellow-bellied gliders, and they are abundantthroughout virtually all of the areas that we harvest,” she told TimberBiz.

Injunctions imposed by Justice Richards on harvesting last December had already locked contractors out of many coupes, leading to lost work, idle machinery and asawlog shortage that has crippled many timber communities as mills slowed or stopped work. East Gippsland’s timber industry is already on the brink of collapse, with 115 workers facing the axe and warnings Orbost will become a“ghosttown”.

In her ruling,Justice Richards said the spotlight surveys VicForests “relies on to detect gliders are limited to aone kilometre transect through acoupe”.

“This leaves most of the coupe unsurveyed and provides incomplete information about whether gliders are present and where their home range is located. Without knowing where the gliders are within acoupe, it is not possiblefor VicForests to take management actions to address risks to them.”

VicForests has highlighted to the court that more intensivesurveying at night is nexttoimpossible, even taking Justice Richards and her associate out to an unharvested to show them the difficulty of the terrain, TimberBiz reported

Media watchdog critical of ABC

THE media watchdoghas found that the ABC breached accuracy rules in stories about Victoria’s native forest industry.

The Australian Communicationsand Media Authority(ACMA) determined that the Australian BroadcastingCorporation (ABC) breached broadcastingrules by misrepresenting risks associated withthe findingsofthe Officeofthe Conservation Regulator (OCR) in Victoria during three radio broadcasts in April 2021.

Statements in each of the broadcasts conveyed that the OCR had foundlogging breachesby VicForests had put Melbourne’s drinking water at risk.

The ACMA found that these statements by the

ABC did not accurately reflect the OCR’s published statements.

The breaches occurred during broadcasts of ABC NewsRadio Breakfast, ABC Radio Melbourne Mornings and anews updateonABC Radio National.

An ACMA investigation foundnoevidence thatthe OCR had foundsuch risks associated withthe logging breaches. As aresult, the ABC broadcastsbreached accuracyrequirementsand misrepresented the perspective of the OCR in attributing these findings to the regulatory body.

The ABC attributed aperspective to the OCR that was not present in their published findings and in this regard had let down its audience.

VicForests said it had published on its website the data that was provided to parties that resulted in misleading and false claims.

VicForests said its analysis based on the latest elevationdata from LiDAR and Victoria’s publicly available dataset shows that of the 365 coupes in the Thomson and Upper Goulburn catchments, two coupes (0.5 per cent of all coupes)may not align with regulatory requirements.

VicForests said it took its responsibility of sustainablyharvesting coupes within state forests for today and future generations extremely seriously.

“We reject allegations that we have engaged in widespread and systemic breachesofslope prescriptions,” VicForests said.

By MICHELLE SLATER and LIAM DURKIN

YINNAR Primaryand kindy kids ventured out to paytheir respects at asmall Remembrance Day service at the town cenotaph last Friday.

The service wasled by YinnarRSL member retired Captain Luke Townsend, who told the gathered children about the significance of the date which signalled the end of World War 1.

Captain Townsend spokeabout the impact of the four-year war which took the lives of nine million worldwide.

“This was four-long years if you think of all that time we were at war. From aculturalperspective, there was anational trauma, there are all these memorialsacross the country,”Cap Townsend said.

“It’s important that these are not just abstract things that the kids are seeing, these were peoples’ dads or uncles or brothers.”

In Morwell, locals gathered to pay their respects at Morwell RSL.

Schoolchildren made up agood percentage of the attendees,while anumberofwreaths were laid by RSL auxiliary members and other serving personnel.

The congregationheard from Morwell RSL president Wayne Hutchinson, and The Last Post

performed by Joseph Bonnici of Morwell Citizens Band.

Morwell RSL also unveiled aplaque for those members of the Morwell region that serves in the Vietnam War.

With the state election coming up, Nationals candidate for Morwell Martin Cameron and Labor candidate Dr Kate Maxfield put their political differences aside for the service.

It turned out to be abusy service for Dr Kate, who tended to an elderly person after they collapsed.

Luckily Dr Kate, who works as an emergency department doctor at Latrobe Regional Hospital, was on the scene.

After the service, light refreshments were held inside the RSL.

Past president of Morwell RSL, Bruce Jeffrey OAM, said it was fantastic to see the younger generation understanding the importance of the ANZAC story.

Armistice Day: Yinnar RSLmember retired Captain LukeTownsend holdsa wreath in front of the town cenotaph. photograph michelle slater

Paying their respects: Labor candidate for Morwell Dr Kate Maxfield and Member for EasternVictoria TomMcIntosh.

photograph liam durkin

Newgeneration: Yinnar PrimarySchool students Isla VanZuylen, Max Willis andXavier Middlebrook with theirhandmade wreath. photograph michelle slater

Honour: Vietnamveterans GrahamBurgess and Ross Howell unveil thenew plaque at Morwell RSL. photograph liam durkin

Pausing to reflect: Nationals candidatefor Morwell Martin Cameron and Member for EasternVictorian Melina Bath. photograph liam durkin

Commemorate: Thenew plaque at Morwell RSL. photograph liam durkin

Legacy: Morwell RSLpresident Wayne Hutchinsonlaying awreath.

photograph liam durkin

Solemn: Wreaths laidatMorwell RSLon Remembrance Day. photograph liam durkin

Lest we forget: Latrobe City Councilchief executiveSteve Piasenteand councillor Graeme Middlemiss. photograph liam durkin

Helping and

By MICHELLE SLATER

LOCALS lookingtoshare their extra garden produce –orpeople needing ahealthy feed -can jump on anew fresh food share scheme.

FoodShare Latrobe is acollaborativeproject in which participantscan signuptopick up an orange box, fill it with fresh vegetables and then put the word out when others can come and help themselves.

The project was launched at the Latrobe Youth Spacelastweek, which will be sharing extra produce grown from its veggie gardens.

Youthspace board member, EllyBrown, said the food share project aimed to tackle food waste, food security and encourage healthy eating, which tiedin with the youth space kitchen garden programs.

Ms Brown said the youth space was also reducingplastic waste withasnack bar stackedwith healthyorganic treats that were bought in bulk, encouraging kids to lay off the chips and sugar.

“This is about growingand sharing food and swapping with healthieralternatives, while reducing plastic waste and landfill,” Ms Brown said.

“These food share boxes are agreat help for those who can’t afford to purchase nutritious veggies. Alot of our young people wouldtakehome left overs as many don’t haveacookedmeal at night.”

Locals can sign up for the program by dropping into the Latrobe Youth Space where they can pick up an orange box with aset of instructions.

The project is being run in conjunction with the LatrobeYouth Space, Food for All Latrobe Valley, Latrobe City Council and the LatrobeCommunity

THELiberals and Nationals have madea$1 million commitment to Lifeline Gippsland, an additional $250,000 ayear for four years on top of itsexisting state government funding arrangement, following concerns after visiting the facility earlier this year from Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Emma Kealy.

Theannouncement, made Tuesday, comes after two Latrobe Valley mental health providers were forced to close their doors in July, and Lifeline Gippsland reported adeficit after the demand for support continued to outweigh funding.

Lifeline Gippsland receives $150,000 annually fromthe stategovernment and,onaverage, triages 11,000 calls ayear, costing $430,000.

Lifeline Gippsland experienced a45per cent increase in calls to its 24-hour crisis line during the pandemic, which hasn’t eased off, with no increase in funding.

In its final report published in February 2021, the Mental Health Royal Commission stated, “Victoria’s mentalhealthsystem has not kept pace “It has drifted away from its earlier aspirations of acommunity-based system and now relies too heavilyonhospital-based services and emergency departments”.

Ms Kealy said the visit to Lifeline Gippsland highlighted the toll the pandemichas takenon grassroots mental health support system.

“Crisis support lines like Lifeline Gippsland did the bulk of heavy lifting to support individuals during lockdowns, yet their ability to fundraise was taken away,” Ms Kealy said.

“There is alackofcriticalcommunity-based mental health supportinGippsland,and organisations like Lifeline are forced to operate on inadequate budgets.

“Lifeline Gippsland hasdoneanamazing job

to provide support for Victorians in distress who can’t get amental health appointment, often for months on end.

“Labor has turned its back on Lifeline Gippsland at their time of need. The Liberals and Nationals understand Lifeline Gippsland needs our support and I’mproud that in government,wewill give them financial security to keep their phone lines open to everyone who needs support.”

Nationals candidate for Morwell, Martin Cameron, said localsneededimproved community based mental health support to break the cycle of individuals presenting at hospital emergency departments in crisis.

“Speaking with Lifeline Gippsland chief executive, Michelle Possingham, it’s clear the need for mental health crisis intervention services has not disappeared, Iamdelightedwecan pledge $1 million to boost mental health support,” Mr Cameron said.

“With acommitment for afunding increase, Lifeline Gippsland can look at delivering more intervention supportservicesand programs,so peoplecan be supported on theirbad days, instead of their worst.”

Liberal candidate for Morwell, Dale Harriman, said the Liberaland Nationals aim to deliver improved access to mental healthcare at the community level.

“Cutting mental health funding and restricting access to support services just shifts the problem to hospital Emergency Departments -it’s no way to support Victorians,” Mr Harriman said.

“Labor has beeningovernment20out of the past 24 years- only the Liberals and Nationals will fix Victoria’s mental health crisis and build themental health workforce.”

Food forall: Latrobe Youth Space participants SamMooreand Mackenzie Bartholomew showoff thenew food swap veggie boxeswith Latrobe City mayorKellie O’Callaghan (centre). photograph michelle slater

Libs get No. 1spot

By LIAM DURKIN

IT’S going to looklikeacricket team on yourballot paper this year.

The ballotdraw for the Seat of Morwell washeld last Friday, determining just where candidates’ names will appear when voters hit the booth for the state election.

Candidates names were put intoacomputer generatedrandomiser, and then sortedfrom places one to 12.

Most candidates were present for the draw, which was held at the old Embrace Fitness and Wellness centre on Princes Dr, Morwell.

With the draw taking place in an abandoned gym, one couldn’t help but feel asomewhat absurd sense of secrecy surrounding the whole episode.

The sight of abingo barrel, to be used if the computer system failed, also gave reason to smile wryly at our democratic practice.

Nevertheless, Liberal candidate DaleHarriman secured the number one spot on the ballot.

While Mr Harriman acknowledgedhavingtop spot wasn’t agamebreaker, he said it did provide some assistance.

“Italwayshelps, it’s always better to be number onebecausethere is going to be that three to five per cent that do adonkey vote,” he said.

“It makes areal difference, with what is going

to be very tight election, any advantage helps.

“Hopefully it helps and hopefully it gets us across the line.”

With Election Dayonly aweek away, Mr Harriman expected the Morwell Seat to come down to the wire.

“I think it is going to be really tight, every vote is going to count,” he said.

“I think people really need to think about how they are going to vote, where they are going to put their vote, and more importantly, where they are going to put their preferences.

“Really think about what people have done in the past for their community, what they have done in their private life, that is going to have ahuge impact on who gets to represent this area.”

Having run in previousstate elections, Mr Harriman said this year’s racewas the most competitive in living memory.

“Twelve people running is massive absolutely massive,” he said.

“I’ve neverseen one this big,itisgoingtomakeit really tight. Preferences are going to be absolutely critical in this, where people put them is going to have ahuge impact.”

The Seat of Morwell is tipped to be one of the most hotly contested in the state.

As Iwas writing this Icouldn’t help but YouTube ‘South Park vote or die’.

Dale Harriman (Liberal)

Martin Cameron (The Nationals)

AlexMaidana (Freedom Party)

Rochelle Hine (Greens)

Lisa Proctor (Independent)

Brendan Clarke (FamilyFirst)

Jessica McAuliffe (AnimalJustice Party)

Kate Maxfield (Labor)

Sharon Gibson (Independent)

Lund (Independent)

Hicken(OneNation)

Snelling (Shooters, Fishers&Farmers)

Eagereyes: Candidates forthe upper and lowerhouse Greg Hansford,DrKateMaxfield,Melina Bath andSharonGibson watch as theballotdrawunfolds.

photographs liam durkin

Springing into Summer

significant

This celebration of community music making will premiere work by local home-grown composer Dani Maree Ashmore, as well as exploringthe themes of Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade, and the ever-popular Blue Danube waltz.

This will be followed by atruly unique experience, as all 100 musicians and choristers join forces to welcome in the festive season by performing some of your favourite carols.

“The community are welcome to join us for this

“We are thrilledtobeabletoshare the stage with other community-minded organisations, who workhard to providesuchjoy to their members andaudiences.”

Springing into Summer is on Sunday, November 27, at 2:30pm in the Traralgon Town Hall, corner of Breed and Grey Sts.

Tickets are $15 each.

Bookings are recommended.

For more information, phone Alison Teychenne on 0402 125 848.

JOIN Gippsland’s very own Latrobe Orchestra, Yallourn Madrigal Singers and Latrobe Valley CommunityChoir in marking the upcoming festive season at Traralgon Town Hall.

collaboration between these three community music ensembles”, Latrobe Orchestra president Maria Creighton said.

Playitclean: Thecommunityisbeing invited to aperformance by Latrobe ValleyCommunity Choir, Latrobe Orchestraand theYallournMadrigal Singers photograph supplied

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NATIONAL Asbestos Awareness Week (November 21-27) reminds Australians again to think twice about asbestos, and encourages home occupiers and tradespeople to ‘do it the right way’ by ensuring the proper

The unseen risk

ASBESTOS was widely used in residential buildings prior to the 1990s, and alarge percentage of homes contain asbestos.

Asbestos can be present in abroad and varied range of products and can be hidden from view

If you think theremay be asbestos in your home or if you areconsidering purchasing an older home, the only way to be certain is to have the property inspected.

Mairin conducts aphysical inspection of the property,and wherethere is suspected asbestos containing materials, asample will be taken and tested in their NATA approved laboratory.

The completed asbestos inspection reportwill detail whereasbestos is located within your home.

It will also provide guidance on the appropriate methods for dealing with asbestos during removal so that it can be completed safely and without risk.

Mairin Asbestos Consulting arespecialist

asbestos consultants.

The team has morethan 15 years’ experience in the asbestos field, working to resolve issues for clients ranging from homeowners and small contractors to large Australian and multi-national corporations.

Mairin run aNATA approved laboratory for samples and testing and airborne monitoring testing.

Phone Mairin Asbestos Consulting to book your inspection on 5127 2311.

and lawful disposal of asbestos.

The focus this year is on preventing the intentional illegal dumping of asbestos, and the often-unintentional improper disposal of asbestos waste in kerbside bins

Asbestos Awareness Week We 21st –27th November 2022

Is your home hiding atoxic secret?

NEARLYthree quarters of homes in the Latrobe Valley could be hiding atoxic secret: Asbestos.

This dangerous building material was widely used in homes built beforethe mid-1980s.

A2020 reportbythe Latrobe Valley Asbestos Taskforce estimated 73 per cent of homes in the area contained asbestos.

Exposuretoasbestos fibres can cause extremely serious health problems, including an aggressive cancer called mesothelioma.

If you’reahomeowner and considering some renovation or aDIY project, it is important to understand the risks and know what to do if you suspect asbestos is in your home.

Asbestos is commonly found in places like wall linings, compressed floor sheeting, eaves, corrugated roof sheeting, pipes, gutters, verandas, sheds, garages and car ports.

If you don’tknow if your home contains asbestos, agood starting point can be to

Why

asbestos

request the building plans from the local council.

However,building plans arenot always conclusive and can sometimes be incomplete or difficult to read.

If you have any doubt, it’sworth seeking aprofessional opinion for the testing and removal of asbestos.

If you do discover asbestos, it’simportant to remember that it’sgenerally safe if kept in good condition, sealed and not disturbed.

But if it’sdamaged, exposed or disturbed (like during renovations), it can pose a serious risk.

If you become awareofdamaged asbestos, or you want to renovate an area that may have it, the safest way to manage this is to reach alicensed asbestos removalist.

If you think you have been exposed to asbestos, you should register your exposureand seek advice from your GP

home renovators and DIYers need to think about

Asbestos Awareness Week We 21st –27th November 2022

Asbestos is lurking in moreplaces than you’d think

ASBESTOS Awareness Week is an important event for Victorians, especially those living in the Latrobe Valley

Asbestos is amaterial that was used in building of residential and industrial buildings between the 1940s and late 1980s, beforeits health risks wereknown.

Asbestos materials werebanned nationally from December 31, 2003, but remain an important material to look out for today,especially when renovating.

Morethan half of homes in the Latrobe Valley still contain asbestos, so extra care must be taken for people renovating their properties.

Any home pre-1990 will have asbestos lurking in it.

Due to asbestos’ versatility and heat resistance, materials containing asbestos can be found in many areas of the home that one may not consider

Afew places to be especially careful of

when renovating are: Roof sheeting, floor coverings, inside of walls, fireplace infills and wall heaters, wet areas and ceiling cavities.

Beforeyou renovate ACV/GARDS highly recommends that you obtain an asbestos audit on your home.

The Asbestos Council of Victoria/GARDS does not advise anyone to attempt to remove asbestos found in their home, and to instead call professionals who can remove it safely

If you arerequiring information on asbestos removalists or auditing your home, visit www.asbestos.vic.gov.au and www.asbestossafety.gov.au

The Asbestos Council of Victoria/GARDS has been operating since 1991, to supportasbestos sufferers in Gippsland and throughout Victoria.

The group is operated by amajority of volunteers, and operates supportgroups in Latrobe Valley and Melbourne, meeting

monthly with guest speakers.

For moreinformation on meetings, counselling services and resources go to www.gards.org.

Asbestos awareness event

ON Friday,November 25 at 11am the Asbestos Awareness Day Event will be held at Gippsland Heritage Park in Moe. The event raises awareness of asbestos and its effects on sufferers, their families, the community and the environment.

Several speakers of interest will provide valuable information and resources.

Therewill be musical entertainment and an ecumenical service to remember those who aresuffering and those who have succumbed to asbestos disease

Families will be able to lay flowers and pay tribute to their loved ones.

For further information, phone Vicki Hamilton on 0407 274 173.

Followingthe release of anew 10-year NationalPlantoEnd Violence against Women and Children,White Ribbon Australia hascalled on communities across the country to come together this White RibbonDay and start aconversation about practical solutions to end men’s violence against womenand children.

National director Allan Ball encouragedpeople to show their support forthe fighttoend men’s violence by hosting an event on White Ribbon Day, thisFriday (November 18) and embracing the theme ‘Let’s be thechange’.

“This year, ‘Let’s be theChange’ and do what we can in ourown lives andasa communityevery day,tocontribute to anation free of all forms of men’s violence against women. This includes bringingour menand boys in to be part of the solution,” Mr Ball said.

“Our focus is to meetmen wherethey’reatonthisissue and ask whatthey can doto make change in theirown lives and communities,thenprovide them with the resources to make it happen

“In this age of toxic male online influencers, it’snow more important than ever we areengaging menand boys in crucial conversations, connecting themtothe actions they can

take now and supporting them as allies overthe long-term.

“It’snolonger good enough just to be aware of the problem. We need men to choose to be partof the journey of change- addressing attitudes, expectations and behaviours that uphold inequality and excuse disrespect

“Through our education, training and advocacy,wereally can address gender equality and shine alight on the positive role men andboys can play in bringing about long-term change.

”With your helponWhite Ribbon Day, we areone step closer to achieving this goal. Last year,Australiansorganised more than 200 events, and this year we aimtodouble that at least.

“Your fundraising effortshelp

create the change we need in our communities; driving our primary prevention work to end men’s violencebeforeitbegins, through education, workplace accreditation, advocacy, partner ships and community-led action plans.”

Mr Ball said thisWhite Ribbon Day is an opportunitytorewrite hope,compassion,and empathy towards oneanother, to create anAustralia free of gendered violence.

“Weneedtotakea considered approach to understanding what’s goingonfor men and boysand supportthemto address theroot issues that cause violenceand abuse,”he said.

“In addition,wemustlisten and learnfromthosewithlived experience of family domestic violence -the victims, survivors and sectorworkers.

“Across thecountry, the momentum to address the gender-based drivers of violence against womenand children has neverbeenstronger.When we work together,weprogress towardsanAustralia that we all want and hope to see. ”

Mr Ball said people can get involved this White Ribbon Day by hostinganevent to start acollectivecalltoaction, which can begin by wearing aWhite Ribbonand starting conversations

“Ending men’s violence against women needs every person, every

community,every school, every workplace,every sports club and every governmentbodyto committobeing apartofthat change,” he said.

Peoplecan register their events at theWhite Ribbon Australia website (whiteribbon.org.au) and upskill about violence preven tionatthe Digital Barber Shop informationhub

Separately, businesses can seekout theWorkplace Accreditation Program, which engages a whole of organisation commitmenttoeliminating men’s violenceagainstwomen.

For White Ribbon Day fund raising support, emailevents@ whiteribbon.org.au.

This WhiteRibbon Day,we’re askingAustralianstodothree things:

1. DISCUSS

THINK about whatyou cando to contribute to anation free of allforms of men’s violence towards women. We’ll meetyou where you’reatand support you to make changes thatwillhave lasting impact.

2. DONATE

JOINWhite Ribbon Australia and be thechange by making a donation on White Ribbon Day to support ourwork to endviolence beforeitbegins.

3. DISRUPT

BREAK the cycle of violence and abuse by hosting an event or joining in with what’s happening in your community to be the change.

LET’S be thechange and end men’s violenceagainstwomen beforeitbegins

WhiteRibbon Australia national director Allan Ball.

Animal welfare market success

THE Animal Welfare Craft Market and Pets Day Out, which was held as afundraiser for animal charities, TheTed Basarke Mercy Foundation and Pet Medical Crisis Fund, werethe winners on Melbourne Cup Day, with 16 marketstalls displaying their wares, alarge number of owners and pets attending and the weather granting organisers the break they needed to run the stalls and pet competitions on the day.

The sun shone while the stalls did acracking trade in selling their products or promoting their group.

Owners got very involved in the competitions, which included ‘Best Trick’, ‘Fluffiest Dog’, ‘Smallest/Tallest Dog’ and the highly popular ‘Dog thatlooks most likeaCat’. Yes, there wasacat on aleash, one very brave ragdoll cat.

The charities would like to offer their heartfelt thanks to the organisers of the day, Amy and Andrew, for putting this event together, and they sincerely appreciate the efforts of the stallholders who wereprepared to take apunt on the weather.

They would like to acknowledge the support from all peopleinvolved: Natasha from Newborough CFA (firstaid), MoeHire, Fat Cat Coffee Roasters, Animal Justice Party, Dr Kate Maxfield, Racing2Rehome,SlinkySpuds, GenuinePet, Fizzy Face Entertainment, Goodland Brewery, Val’s Jewellery,Pawfection DogTreats, Maywood Lodge Candles, Amici &Co, Puparrel, Unwind Awhile, Naomi Seccombe Photography, Kellee Kenter Buntings, Dolls &Quilts, and Whipped Body Co.

Thanks go to all who contributedtheir advice, their physical support and financial contribution.

The Ted Basarke Mercy Foundationsupport financially vulnerable peoplewith their veterinary bills and holdamonthly pet walkonthe Moe Yallourn Rail Trail.

The next walk is November 20 from 9.30am at the Rotary rotunda and all are welcome to attend.

Gold coin donation, with refreshments provided at the conclusion of the walk.Dogs must be on leash.

Animalkingdom: The recent Pets DayOut sawpatrons

Unusual: Theevent sawpet categories such as ‘Cat on aLeash’. photographs supplied

BIG Wisinviting the nation to share in the true spirit of Christmas this year, with the return of itsannual Giving Tree initiative.

From now until Christmas Eve, customers can donate agift at BIG WMid Valley,supporting families in need and helping to spread some joy to households across the country.

BIGW’s charity partner, Good360Australia, has matched all 177stores with alocal charity, which will see the Giving Tree support 120 charity organisations and disadvantaged schools across Australia, includingwomen’sshelters, youth centres, schools, homeless shelters and children in hospital.

Good360 will work with BIG Wtoensure that each customer donation is delivered to those in the community that need it most.

“Our BIG Wstoreshave had astrongconnection to their communitiesfor over 50 years. Our annual Giving Tree initiative gives us the opportunity to support local charities and families at atimethat is special for many families, but also atimeofneed,” Big Wmanaging director Pejman Okhovat said.

“We wereoverwhelmed by the generosity of both our customers and team last year, collecting and

distributing over 11,000 gifts nationwide.

“With many households doing it tough this year, we want our customers to know that even the smallest gift can still make abig difference.”

Good360has been acharitypartner of BIGW since 2017,helping to match surplus goods to local families in need, essentialgoods to disaster-affected communities, and special gifts to vulnerablepeople during important celebrations such as Christmas, helping to provide hope and dignity.

“While Christmas is awonderful time for families, it can be achallenging time for the most vulnerable members of our communities,” Good360 founder Alison Covington said.

“We’re very proud to once again be working with our long term partner BIG Wtosupport families facing hardship after adifficult year.

“The Giving Tree will allow people who are in aposition to give back to help share the magic of Christmas with other familiesand let them know they are not alone at this special time of year.”

Customers can place unwrapped gifts under their local BIG WGivingTree or purchaseaChristmas Token from now until Christmas Eve. For more information, visit www.bigw.com.au

HOROSCOPES

by Joanne Madeline Moore

Aries Are you a lacklustre Ram who’s temporarily lost your confidence? Dynamic Mars (your boss planet) is in retrograde mode until January 12 So you need to review your current plans and reboot your long term aspirations Believing in yourself is the key, even though it’s the last thing you feel like doing at the moment Your motto for the week is from birthday great, artist Georgia O’Keeffe: “I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught

Taurus Retrograde Mars highlights hiccups in your financial management, and the Venus/Jupiter trine boosts your shopaholic tendencies So aim to be less extravagant and more cautious with cash and credit Expect a chatty week with plenty of opportunities to converse and socialise in person and online With the help of diplomatic Venus (and your heightened persuasive powers), strive to anticipate (and smooth over) communication problems before they happen

Gemini Mercury (your patron planet) c Gonnects with adventurous Jupiter and transits into spontaneous Sagittarius And Mars is visiting your sign although it is in retrograde mode So don’t let fear stop you from patiently moving towards your ambitious goals Draw inspiration from this week’s birthday great painter Georgia O’Keeffe: “I’ve been terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do ”

Cancer Many Crabs are feeling cranky and impatient, as projects seem to stall at every turn Retrograde Mars is transiting through your self sabotage zone, plus Neptune throws a spanner (or should that be a trident?) into the mix So you ’ re set for a frustrating, disappointing and/or confusing week But are other people, circumstances and planets placing annoying obstacles in your path and slowing you down or are you the lone culprit? Food for thought

Leo The Sun (your power planet) forms fabulous connections with Neptune and Pluto So prepare for a creative surge as inspiration strikes, confidence blooms and your imagination soars If you are a Leo poet, painter, performer, writer, singer, dancer or musician, make the most of it But with Mars reversing through your aspirations zone avoid taking on too much, over promising and then under delivering Aim to be a selective Cat who gets things done

Virgo This week in areas involving your profeg ssional work and your public reputation best laid plans could come unstuck, as you ride a wave of unsettling changes Mars continues reversing through your career zone (and on the weekend it squares Neptune) So take extra care with computers, contracts and communication, especially with colleagues, clients or customers If you are unclear, then others will misinterpret your ideas, motivations and explanations

Libra The Venus/Jupiter trine is terrific for work and money But with Mars in retro mode don’t mislead someone by giving them mixed messages Do your best to keep communication crystal clear, especially in areas involving legal matters, education, commerce, travel and international connections It would be best to delay a major trip or holiday until next year (after Mars turns direct on January 12) But you can start saving, planning and booking ASAP!

Scorpio Nebulous Neptune squares mighty Mars, which is still reversing through your trust and control zone So you’ll feel disoriented and confused, and could try to regain control by slipping into control freak mode The Sun/Pluto link encourages you to slow down, keep your options open and wait patiently Your motto for the moment is from fellow Scorpio, singer songwriter Katy Perry: “I never want to be just one thing I want to be multi dimensional ”

Trafalgar Probus hosts annual Cluster Dinner

TRAFALGAR &District Probus Club hosted the annual Probus Cluster Dinner for the region recently at Black Tie Restaurant in Warragul.

The specialdinnersaw 125 Probians gather together to enjoy fun,fellowship and friendship in abundance.

Sagittarius

This week the Sun, Mercury, Venug s, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto activate your spirituality zone So slow down, review major plans, revisit unfinished projects and look for inspiration from within It will take plenty of persistence to turn your dreams into reality And Mars is still retrograde so a close relationship could suddenly stall or even go backwards! Don’t waste precious time worrying and wondering Instead be patient as you re evaluate and re calibrate

Capricorn Mars continues reversing through your work zone until January 12 So when it comes to professional matters it’s a case of one step forwards and two steps back With patience and perseverance, you ll eventually get there Confidence levels are also a bit low, so do your best to surround yourself with positive people who boost your spirits and encourage your dreams Friday and Saturday favour setting personal goals and getting involved in group projects

Aquarius Aquarians are fiercely indeqpendent folk You pride yourself on being able to do most things on your own but that’s not always such a good idea This week Mercury and Venus transit into your networking zone, and Mars is still reversing through your friendship zone So at the moment the secret to success is repairing (and rebooting) old relationships, as you work collaboratively and patiently with others You’ll find many hands make light work!

Pisces Do your best to get the balance right between your professional life and your domestic responsibilities If a stressful situation is worrying you then do something about it But make sure you communicate your intentions clearly otherwise your words deeds and/or actions could be misconstrued And don’t be all talk and no action!

Inspiration for the week is from Piscean playwright Henrik Ibsen: “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed ”

CopyrightJoanne Madeline Moore 2022

The seven clubs made up of three Warragul clubs, two Drouin clubs,Garfield/Bunyip, plus Trafalgar and District.

The restaurant was decorated in the gold and blue Probuscolours, plus the Probus banners that represented each of the clubs.

Staff at theBlack Tie served adelicious two coursemealfollowed by teaand coffee andthe chocolates that was on each table.

Presidents from each club spoke briefly on the events they had been able to enjoy this year. Patrons were entertained during the lunch by musician and singer Chris Newman.

Guest speaker for the day was Emma Germano, the first female presidentofthe VictorianFarmer’s Federation.

Ms Germano comes from athird generation farming family in Mirboo North.

Her family have amixed farming enterprise that supplies freshvegetables for local and overseas markets. They also run sheep and cattle for the meat markets. Ms Germano spoke of her journey fromschool to university and the various roles she has worked in since those days. Her passion is in sustainability and the education of thecommunity in food and fibre production from the ground up.

She spoke about her concern for the future security of food production and energy sources in Australia and Victoria,and the needtoplan not just for now but for well into the future. She spokeofthe costs faced by regionalpeople, fuel, food productioncosts, reducing emissions, the poor state of regional roads, cost of power and gas and the regional health system.

Probus members sat enthralled, applauded her ideas and asked numerous questions.

Her visit was certainly the highlight of avery enjoyable day.

The general meetingthis month saw member GloriaCornwallbeingpresented with her 10 year pinbyvice president Glenda Mynard.

Speaker at the monthly meeting was Trafalgar’s very own member, Jim Cornwell.

Mr Cornwell spoke eloquently of his childhood, growing up during the war in England.

His family had aMorrison Shelter inside their

house that they would retreattowhenplanes were dropping bombs. He described it as atype of wire cage with ametal “roof” that would protect them from falling timbers and bricksshould their house be hit while they slept. He told of his father going off to war and returning some years later and not recognising who this stranger was.

Thefamily eventually moved to Australia. Mr Cornwell went on to becomeanengineer in the air force. He alsospent time working for the Weather Bureau and then later the SEC.

The Probus Christmas Dinner will be held on the general meeting day in December at the Neerim South Hotel, and this celebration will complete a busy calendar of Probus events for 2022.

Probus commences January 52023with it’s first general meeting.

This is agreat chance forpeople to come and join and see just what Probus has to offer.

Trafalgar &District special event in early 2023 is the 30th birthday celebration of the club, to be held in March.

Plans are already underway to makeitaday to remember.

For more information on Trafalgar &District Probus, phone John Attwell on 0419 701 331.

Well done: Gloria Cornwall being presented with her 10 year Trafalgar &District Probus Club pin from vice president Glenda Mynard. Mrs Mynardwas aprimaryschool teacher of The Express’own Liam Durkin. photographs supplied

Acknowledgment: Ross Pethybridge presenting speakerJim Cornwell with aProbusgiftpen

Gathering: Trafalgar &District Probus Club recently hosted aClusterDinner

Silk Sanctuary Chinese Medicine e Fit for Life

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) consists of agroup of modalities, such as Acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, moxibustion originating from China over twothousand years ago. TCMknowledge spread through Asia to Europe via the Silk Road routes. Sharing empirical knowledge of medical practices, medicinal substances, cultureand philosophy, as asegment of the trade and transcontinental exchanges. TCMmedical practices also influenced neighbouring countries, including Sino- Japanese medicine (Kampo) and Korean medicine. Since the 1970s, the growth of Chinese Medicine practice expanded to Western countries, such as USA, UK and Australia offering adifference of perspective to health and wellbeing.

H Historically,aancient Chinese Medicine doctors have gone to great lenngth to understand illness disease and health. This hasled to the creation of the world’s first medical text,Huang Nei Di Jing (HNDJ) is the founding text of Traditional Chinese Medicine, dating back to 220BCE. Subsequent Chinese medicine texts still support the HNDJ text and became the fundamental text as abasis for other areas of speciality areas of health, such as illness related to coldness and heat (febrile/epidemics), gynaecology,digestive health, lingering pathogens (viral/bacterial/ parasites) to name afew

Currently,weare seeing the clinical benefits of Chinese Medicine treatments for symptoms related to fertility (men/women)

and gynaecological conditions, paediatrics, musculoskeletal dysfunction,aaddiction and mental health, digestive ailments, oncology and dermatological conditions.

In recent years, we have also seen the integration of technological measures for assessing physiological functions to support clinical outcomes. Forexample, the use of charting awomen’s basal body temperature during each month is arelatively new diagnostic tool to gauge thefunctionofher fertile condition from aChinese Medicine perspective. By contrast,weare also seeing newways to address neurological conditions such as Bell’s palsy,stroke, and peripheral impairments with the use of Scalp acupuncture GP1 650 14 1

Silk SanctuaryChinese Medicine

Day for DanielatStodale Road

ON Friday, October 28, Stockdale Road Primary School, Traralgon, took part for the very first time in ‘Day for Daniel’.

The Junior School Council decided to take part in the event, raising awareness for child safety by dressing in red.

Throughout the week, classrooms participated in activities that taught them about child safety.

On the day, the whole school came together to create alove heart to show support for the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, and through gold coin donations, were able to raise $484.

St Joseph’sPrimaryhas talent

RECENTLY, the Mini Vinnies team at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Trafalgar, organised aschool talent show.

Students were encouraged to enter and then perform their item in front of the school community.

The Mini Vinnies team organised this event as a fundraiser for the Moe/ Newborough ‘Meals on Wheels’ group.

President Beth Cox and treasurer Dot Teague visited the school for the school assembly.

The students presented a cheque of $350 to Beth and Dot, who explained the work of ‘Meals on Wheels’ in the local area.

The students were proud to be supporting such important work in the community.

Continuous learning

GIPPSLAND Southern Health Service (GSHS) is developing its continuous learning environment as adrawcard to attract staff and create the next generation of workers.

Like most facets of society, the health system strugglestofind suitable employees, but GSHS believes it is well-placedtoattract astrong workforce now and in the future.

GSHS has about 20 job vacancies, including enrolled and registered nurses, midwives, sonographers, food and domestic assistants and speech pathologists.

Interim chief executive officer, Chris Trotman, said GSHS had created acollaborative and supportive continuous learning environment as a drawcard to attract and retain staff.

“The learning options here are excellent, covering clinical, non-clinical, allied health and through to work-experience placements for students,” Ms Trotman said.

“We all know it’s hard to fill positions, so we’ve developed career pathway opportunities that will appeal to people.

“Muchofthe training is hands-on in clinical surroundings, and GSHS also provides management coaching and leadership development programs.”

Non-clinical educator and careeradviser, Jennifer Miles, has recently completed her PhD in ‘learning anddevelopment’ in VocationalEducation and Training.

Her role at GSHS centres on cultivating safe-learning spaceswhere staffcan continue movingforward in their professionaland personal development.

“Through my own life-long learning, Ihave come to understand learning as ashared, transformative journey,” Dr Miles said.

She provides hands-on supportfor staff who might requireguidanceorinspiration for their current studies or future pathways.

This includes informal, TAFE, undergraduate, post-graduate and higher-degree research studies.

“Sometimes it’s aboutconsideringpathways into gaining apromotion or shift across in their current area, or staff might be contemplating a‘sea change’ and want to explore something totally unrelated to their current role,” Dr Miles said.

“In all instances, Iprovide spacefor staff to grow into the greatest expression of themselves -inways that maximise the services that GSHS can offer our community.”

Ms Trotman said GSHS was againcollaborating

On the job: Neo-natal resuscitation training is providedonmannequins forGSHS staff.

Education: Mirboo North SecondarySchool Year 10 student Gabby Buissink learns about CT scannersfromradiographer Georgia Webster photographs supplied

with local secondary colleges to provideplacements for students.

“After abreakdue to COVID, GSHS is pleasedto have secondary students back so we can give them ataste of the different and rewarding professions available locally,” she said.

Students seeking placement can contact the education team at education@gshs.com.au.

GSHS is also encouraging local people to consider government-funded placementsfor nursing and aged care in 2023 that can be studied for free at the TAFE Gippsland Leongatha campus.

Manythanks: The talent showatStJoseph’s Primary School, Trafalgar raised morethan $300 forMoe/Newborough MealsonWheels

Dayfor Daniel: StockdaleRoad Primary School,Traralgon, students and staffforma love heart, supporting theDaniel Morcombe Foundation.

LEGO MASTERS BRICKSMASSPECIAL

Nine, Sunday, 7pm

We arestill working our waythrough November,but aChristmas special from the joy-filled LEGOMasterscrew is heretoimbue everyone with Christmas excitement andwonder.Expectfestivepuns and an array of garish knitted jumpers as hostHamish Blakeand LEGO expert Ryan “Brickman”McNaughtpullout all the stopsinthis two-part special. This year’s merrycontestants are HomeandAwaystar Lincoln Lewis, former YellowWiggle Emma Watkins, cookingempress PohLingYeow and TheBlock’s Darren Palmer (all pictured, from left,with Brickman and Blake), who team up with pastcontestants to find out who can create the most impressiveLEGOChristmas-themed build.

Wednesday, November 16

ABC TV (2) SBS (3)

SEVEN (7,6)

TEN (10, 5) NINE (9,8) 6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners.(R) 11.05 AustraliaRemastered. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.40 Media Watch. (PG, R) 2.00 The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years In The Baking. (R) 3.00 Gardening Australia.(R) 4.10 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. (R) 5.00 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

5.55 VICElectionAnnouncements. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Cook Up Bitesize. (R) 9.05 Peer To Peer.(R) 10.05 Living With The Boss. (M) 11.05 Good With Wood.(PGl, R) 12.00 WorldWatch. 12.30 ABCWorld News Tonight With David Muir 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Saving Lives At Sea. (PGan, R) 3.05 LukeNguyen’s Railway Vietnam. (PGa, R) 3.40 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw.(R) 4.10 Tony Robinson’s World By Rail. (PGal, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 TheMorning Show (PG) 11.30 SevenMorning News. 12.00 MOVIE: IAmElizabeth Smart. (2017,Mav,R) 2.00 World’sDeadliest: Expect TheUnexpected (Mal) 3.00 TheChase. (R) 4.00 SevenNews At 4. 5.00 TheChaseAustralia.

6.00 Today 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 MorningNews 12.00 My MumYour Dad. (Mls, R) 1.30 My Way. (PG,R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News 4.30[VIC]MillionaireHotSeat 5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30[VIC]WINNews.

6.00 The Talk.(PGa) 7.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, R) 8.00 10 NewsFirst: Breakfast 8.30 Studio 10.(PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 TheRealLove Boat Australia. (PGl, R) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.(R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 TheBoldAnd TheBeautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 NewsFirst.

(R) 5.25 7.30.(R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 TheSecrets Of Coca-Cola: The BillionDollar Beverage. (PGad, R) Explores thehistory of Coca-Cola. 8.35 Stolen: Catching TheArt Thieves: Stockholm. (M) Part 3of3 Takesalook at thetheft of aself-portrait by Rembrandt in Stockholm, Sweden 9.35 NinePerfect Strangers (Final, MA15+) Theparticipants face their demons. 10.35 SBS World News Late. 11.05 No Man’s Land. (MA15+av, R) 1.00 Bad Banks. (MA15+a, R) 2.00 Romulus. (MA15+av,R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

Affair.(R) 9GEM (92, 81) 7TWO (72, 62) SBS VICELAND (31) 6am Children’s Programs. 5.30pm Kiri And Lou. 5.35 Go Jetters. 5.50 Peppa Pig. 5.55 Reef School. 6.05 Ben And Holly 6.20 Bluey. 6.25 Alva’sWorld. 6.40 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 7.00 OddSquad. 7.10 Shaun The Sheep. 7.20 Bluey 7.30 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 8.00 ArtWorks. 8.30 Days LikeThese With Diesel. 9.30 Brian Johnson’s ALife On The Road. 10.15 Stuff The British Stole 10.45 OurBrain. 11.40 Louis Theroux’sLAStories. 12.45am Catalyst. 1.40 ABC News Update 1.45 Close 5.00 Cookie Monster’s Foodie Truck. 5.10 Dot. 5.25 BabyJake. 5.35 Charlie And Lola. 5.45 Late Programs.

6.00 Nine News 7.00 ACurrent Affair 7.30 Country Home Rescue With Shaynna Blaze. (Premiere, PG) Shaynna Blazerestoresadilapidated home. 8.40 DreamListingsByron Bay. (Premiere)Follows a group of property agents. 9.40 To Be Advised. 10.40 Nine NewsLate. 11.10 Family Law. (Ma) 12.05 Bluff City Law. (Ma, R) 1.00 Drive TV.(R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop.(R) 3.00 TV 6am WorldWatch. 7.20 Fiji OneNews. 8.10 ABCAmerica Nightline 8.40 CBC TheNational 9.30 Shortland St 11.00 TheMovie Show Noon The Ghan: TheFullJourney 2.25 Bamay 2.45 Front Up 1998 3.45 ABC World News Tonight With David Muir 4.15 PBS NewsHour 5.15 Shortland Street. 5.45 The JoyOfPaintingWith Bob Ross. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Land Of The Giants: Titans Of Tech. 10.10 MOVIE: TheGame. (1997, MA15+) 12.30am MOVIE: The Lobster (2015, MA15+) 2.45 NHK WorldEnglish News. 5.00 Al JazeeraNews Hour

Life Is Murder (Ma) An actor is murderedduringaperformance 11.00 TheProject (R) Alook at the day’snews and events. 12.00 TheLateShowWith Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.00 Home Shopping (R) 4.30 CBS Mornings.

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TheProject Alook at the day’s news andevents. ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. Noon The Carrie Diaries. 1.00 LA Clippers Dance Squad. 2.00 Full House. 3.00 The Nanny. 3.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 4.00 That ’70s Show 4.30 Everybody LovesRaymond. 5.30 The Nanny 6.00 3rd Rock From The Sun. 6.30 That ’70s Show 7.00 YoungSheldon. 8.30 Love IslandAustralia 9.30 MOVIE: American Wedding.(2003,MA15+) 11.30 YoungSheldon Midnight IAmCait. 1.00 Baywatch. 2.50 MikeTyson Mysteries. 3.00 Bakugan:Geogan Rising. 3.30 Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitzu. 4.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.00 Pokémon Journeys. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens.

TheDog House Australia (PGa, R) Narrated by Dr Chris Brown. 8.30 TheReal Love Boat Australia. With only ahandful acouples left onboard, it is timefor the passengers to getevenmore serious. 6am The FishingShow 7.00 Fish Of The Day 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 AFootball Life 9.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 10.00 American Pickers. 11.00 American Restoration. 11.30 Pawn Stars. Noon Outback Truckers. 2.00 Aussie Salvage Squad. 3.00 Wild Transport 3.30 Heavy Lifting. 4.30 Aussie Lobster Men. 5.30 American Restoration. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars.

Of 6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 7.00 CrefloDollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My FavoriteMartian. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young AndThe Restless. 1.50 New Tricks. 3.00 Explore. 3.10 Antiques Roadshow. 3.40 MOVIE: Loser TakesAll.(1956, PG) 5.30 Murder, She Wrote. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 As TimeGoes By 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 ChicagoP.D 11.50 Danger Man. 12.50am Explore. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Take Two. 2.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 JoyceMeyer 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10 BOLD (12, 53)

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TwoAnd AHalfMen. 10.10 The BigBangTheory 11.00 Frasier Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 The Late LateShow With James Corden. 3.30 The King Of Queens. 4.30

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(R) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Escape To The Country 7.30 Harry’sPractice. 8.00 Cruise Away 8.30 Million Dollar Minute 9.30 NBC Today Noon Emmerdale 12.30 Coronation Street 1.00 Sons And Daughters. 3.00 My Greek Odyssey 4.00 Sydney Weekender. 4.30 Medical Emergency 5.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Escape To The Country 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat. 8.45 Lewis. 10.45 Born To Kill? 11.45 World’s MostShocking Emergency Calls. 12.45am Hard Sun. 2.00 Escape To The Country 3.00 Bargain Hunt. 4.00 Room ForImprovement. 4.30 Harry’s Practice. 5.00 Late Programs. 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 PatCallinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 9.00 What’s Up Down Under 9.30 EscapeFishing With ET. 10.00 MacGyver Noon NCIS: LosAngeles. 1.00 NCIS:New Orleans. 2.00 Bull. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 The Love Boat 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 MacGyver 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 HawaiiFive-0 10.20 Tommy 11.15 Evil. 12.15am Home Shopping. 2.15 HawaiiFive-0 3.10 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 4.05 MacGyver

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6.10 Secrets Of The Museum. Part 4of5

6.55 VICElection Announcements. (R)Anelection broadcast.

7.00 ABCNews. Takesalook at today’stop stories.

7.30 Doc Martin. (PG) Martin attends Stewart’ssurvival course, but not as aparticipant likeAland Penhale.

8.20 Shetland. (Return,Mal) When acontroversial local is murdered, Perez returns from hismother’s funeral to leadthe investigation.

9.20 Significant Others. (MA15+s, R) Ciaran grows tenacious in his demands for answers as Hanna arrives at acalm acceptance of her mother’s fate

10.10 Miniseries: Des. (Mal, R) Part 3of3

11.00 Silent Witness. (Ma, R) Jack fights to keep theresidentsofacarehomealive.

12.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Britain’s Great Outdoors. 10.00 The World From Above 11.00 Paul O’Grady:For The Love Of Dogs. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Motorcycle Racing. FIM SuperbikeWorld Championship.Round 11. Highlights. 3.00 FigureSkating. ISU Grand Prix. MK John Wilson Trophy.Highlights. 4.30 Judo 4.35 Raffles: Remaking An Icon. (PGl, R) 5.30 Trains At War.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Michael Palin: TravelsOfA

Lifetime: Sahara. (PGanw,R)Michael Palin revisits his fourth travel series.

8.30 Secrets OfThe Royal Palaces: Buckingham. (PG) TakesalookatBuckingham Palace.

9.20 CurseOfThe Mummy. (PGa, R) Archaeologists search formummies

10.15 Celebrity Letters And Numbers. (M,R)

11.15 MOVIE: TheKeeper. (2018, Malv,R)

1.25 MOVIE: Don’t Tell.(2017,Malsw,R)Jack Thompson, Rachel Griffiths. 3.20 The Royal Family Affairs &Infidelities. (Ma, R) 4.15

Searching ForThe Tassie Tiger.(Ml, R) 4.45

Destination Flavour: Singapore Bitesize.(R)

5.00 NHK World English News Morning 5.15 France 24 Feature. 5.30 ANC PhilippinesThe World Tonight

6.00 NBCToday. [VIC]HomeShopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 TheMorning Show: Weekend. (PG) Highlights from the past week. 12.00 Horse Racing. TheGongRace Day BallaratCup Day andMooloolaba Cup Day 3.00 To Be Advised. 4.00 To Be Advised.

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R) Officerswant to know the reason behind aFrench traveller’s extremely nervous behaviour

7.30 MOVIE: Aquaman. (2018,Mv, R) Ahalf-human, half-Atlantean goes on a questtoretrieve the legendaryTrident of Atlan and protect the waterworld. Jason Momoa, AmberHeard,Willem Dafoe

10.20 MOVIE: Anna. (2019,MA15+av, R) Awoman becomesa feared government assassin. Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren 12.50 Black-ish. (PGa, R) Pops and Ruby are gettingremarried.

1.00[VIC]HomeShopping. 1.20 Black-ish. (PGa,R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 It’sAcademic (R) 5.00 House Of Wellness (PG, R)

6.00 Getaway.(PG, R) 6.30 ACurrent Affair (R) 7.00 WeekendToday 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday.(PG) 12.00 Our StateOnA Plate. (PG) 12.30 Cross Court. 1.00 DriveTV. (Final) 1.30 My Way. (PG, R) 2.00 The 56th Annual

CountryMusic Association Awards. (PGl) 4.00 Destination Australia. (Premiere) 4.30

The GardenGurus. 5.00 News:First At Five. 5.30 Getaway.(PG)

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 ACurrentAffair

7.30 MOVIE: TheBourneIdentity (2002, Mlv,R)A man sets out to discover his identity after being hauled from the ocean with amnesia.Matt Damon, FrankaPotente, Chris Cooper.

9.45 MOVIE: TheBourneSupremacy (2004,Mlv,R)A former CIAagent, suffering from amnesia, triestoclear hisname after being framed forabotched assassination. MattDamon, Franka Potente,Brian Cox.

11.50 MOVIE: FiftyShadesFreed (2018,MA15+ls, R) Anastasia and Christian get married. Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan.

1.45 Talking Honey. (PGs, R) Adiscussion about sex education.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop (R)

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R)

5.30 SkippyThe Bush Kangaroo (R)

6am Morning Programs. 8.30 What’sUp Down Under.(R) 9.00 Australia By Design: Architecture.(PG, R) 9.30 St10.(PG) 12.00 Living Room.(PG,R) 1.00 My Market Kitchen. (R) 1.30 Healthy Homes Aust. 2.00 Well Traveller.(PGa,R) 2.30 Cook It With Luke. (R) 3.00 What’s Up Down Under 3.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 4.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 4.30 Taste Of Aust. (R) 5.00 News.

6.00 Bondi Rescue. (PGal, R) Lifeguards try to enforce social distancing.

7.00 Jamie’sOne-Pan Wonders. Jamie Oliver prepares asmoky noodle soup

7.30 Blue Bloods. (Mv)

The Reagan familyisharassed.

8.30 CSI: Vegas. (MA15+m) The CSI team investigates after all the guests attending afundraising soiree fall ill.

9.30 NCIS. (Mv,R)Agent Parker steps up to protectDirectorVance after he is subject to aterrifying home invasion.

10.30 My Life Is Murder (Ma, R)

An actorismurdered during a performance.

11.30 TheCheapSeats. (Mal, R) 12.30 Home Shopping. (R)

3.30[VIC]Infomercials.(PG) 4.00[VIC]HomeShopping.(R) 4.30 Authentic (PG) 5.00 Hour Of Power

ABC TV PLUS (22)

6am Children’s Programs. 7.20pm Bluey 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Melbourne Comedy Festival: The Gala 9.30 Sammy J. (Final) 9.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 10.20 Ghosts. (Final) 10.50 Would ILie To You? 11.20 Doctor Who 12.20am TheOffice. 1.05 Friday Night Dinner 1.30 Brian Cox: SevenDaysOn Mars. 3.00 ABC News Update. 3.05 Close. 5.00 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.10 Dot 5.25 Late Programs.

NITV (34)

6am Morning Programs. 12.10pm Land Of Primates. 1.00 GoingPlaces. 2.00 Characters Of Broome. 2.30 Intune 08 3.30 Sing About This Country. 5.30 Power To ThePeople. 6.00 PacificIsland Food Revolution. 6.50 News. 7.00 On CountryKitchen. 7.30 The Land We’reOn With Penelope Towney 7.35 Bears: The Ultimate Survivors. 8.30 MOVIE: Narrow Margin. (1990, M) 10.15 Gifts Of The Maarga. 11.00 Late Programs.

SBS VICELAND (31) SBS WORLD MOVIES (32)

6am WorldWatch. 9.30 Shortland St. 11.00 The Movie Show. Noon Mr Toilet: The World’s#2Man. 1.10 High Society 1.35 Gymnastics. FIGArtisticWorld Challenge Cup Series 2.35 Sportswoman 3.05 WorldWatch. 4.30 Mastermind Aust. 5.30 Vs Arashi. 6.25 Speed With Guy Martin. 7.30 Impossible Engineering. 8.30 Video Killed The Radio Star 9.00 Stuck. 10.15 Kids Raising Kids. 11.15 Vikings. 12.10am Late Programs.

6am

The Hollars. Continued. (2016,PG) 7.05 Ernest &Celestine.(2012,PG) 8.35 Sheep And Wolves. (2016,PG) 10.10 The Jane Austen Book Club.(2007, M) 12.10pm BrightYoung Things. (2003, M) 2.10 Frankie. (2019,M) 4.05 Asterix And ObelixVs Caesar.(1999,PG, French) 6.05 TheWorld’sFastest Indian. (2005, PG) 8.30 The Flood. (2020,MA15+) 10.40 Late Programs.

7TWO (72, 62)

6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Travel Oz 11.30 South Aussie With Cosi Noon Creek To Coast. 12.30 Weekender 1.00 Weekender 1.30 Master Build. 2.30 DVine Living. 3.00 Horse Racing.The GongRace Day,Ballarat CupDay andMooloolaba Cup Day. 6.00 Border Security:Int. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country 10.30 IEscaped To The Country. 11.30 Late Programs.

7MATE (73,63)

6am Morning Programs. 12.30pm Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Australia ReDiscovered. 2.00 Boating.Australian V8 Superboats Championship.Round 2. Replay 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 4.00 Pawn Stars. 4.30 Barter Kings. 5.30 Last Stop Garage. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 To Be Advised. 9.00 MOVIE: MenInBlack. (1997, M) 11.00 Late Programs.

6am MorningPrograms. 8.30 TV Shop 10.00 MotorRacing. SpeedSeries. TouringCar Racing Australia. Noon My Favorite Martian. 12.30 AntiquesDownunder 1.00 TheBest 30 Years. 1.30 AntiquesRoadshow Detectives. 2.10 Avengers. 3.20 MOVIE: Against TheWind. (1948 PG) 5.20 MOVIE: SittingBull. (1954,PG) 7.30 MOVIE: Once Upon ATime In The West. (1968,M) 10.55 Late Programs.

9GEM (92,81)

6am The Late Show

With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 The KingOfQueens 8.00 Frasier 9.00 Becker 10.00 Friends. Noon

The King Of Queens. 1.00 The Real Love Boat Australia. 3.30 To Be Advised. 5.30 Friends. 6.00

9GO! (93, 82)

6am Children’s Programs. 1pm Revolution. 2.00 Motor Racing. FIA World Endurance C’ship.8Hours of Bahrain. H’lights. 3.10 MOVIE: 100%Wolf.(2020,PG) 5.10 MOVIE: Babe. (1995) 7.00 MOVIE: Nanny McPhee. (2005,PG) 9.00 MOVIE: Parenthood. (1989,M) 11.30 Duncanville. Midnight Kardashians 2.00 Baywatch. 2.50 MikeTyson Mysteries. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Fury 3.30 Late Programs.

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6am Shopping. 9.00 Snap Happy 10.00 PatCallinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 11.00 EscapeFishingWithET. 11.30 Healthy Homes Australia. Noon The LoveBoat 1.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 2.00 A-League All Access. 2.30 Roads Less Travelled 3.00 MacGyver 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Waltzing Jimeoin. 6.30 Scorpion. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: LosAngeles. 10.20 MacGyver 11.15 Late Programs.

6.00 DriveTV. (R) 6.30 ACurrent Affair.(R) 7.00 WeekendToday 10.00 Sports Sunday (PG) 11.00 Women’s Footy. (PG) 12.00 Reel Destinations:Lodge Life. 12.30 Fishing Australia. 1.00 GreatAustralian Detour.(R) 1.30 TheCoolangatta Gold 2022 2.30 Driving Test. (PG, R) 3.00 Taronga:Who’s Who In The Zoo. (PGa, R) 4.00 BondiVet. (PGam) 5.00 News:First At Five 5.30 Postcards.(PG) 6.00 Mass. 6.30 Turning Point. (PGa) 7.00 Joseph Prince. [VIC]LeadingTheWay. (PG)7.30 Joel Osteen. [VIC]Tomorrow’s World.(PGa)8.00 Living Room.(PG, R) 9.00 Luca’s KeyIngredient. (R) 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday.(PG) 12.00 The Challenge Australia. (PGl, R) 2.00 Soccer.SydneySuper Cup.Game 2. Celtic FC vEverton FC 5.00 10 News First.

11.00 TheFront Bar (M, R) 12.00 World’sDeadliest: Hostile Hangouts. (Ml, R) 1.00 Medical Emergency (PG, R) [VIC]HomeShopping. 1.30 MedicalEmergency (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 Million Dollar Minute. (R) 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 SevenEarly News. 5.30 Sunrise. 6.00 Nine News Sunday. 7.00 LEGO Masters Bricksmas Special. (PG) Part 1of2

6amWorldWatch 9.30Shortland St. 11.00TheMovie Show NoonParty Of Five. 12.50FIFAWorld Cup 2022: The Journey 1.50 TheRising. 2.20The Rising:The Salute 1968 2.50The Rising. 3.20WorldWatch 3.50Insight 4.50Forged In Fire. 5.40The Bee Whisperer 6.40The Buildings That Fought Hitler 7.35Jack Whitehall’s Got, Got,Need. 8.30The UnXplained. 9.20Paul Merson:Football Gambling And Me. 10.20Late Programs. 6am Children’s Programs. 6.40pm Andy’sDinosaur Adventures. 7.00 Andy And The Band. 7.20 Bluey. 7.30 Australia Remastered. (Final) 8.30 Louis Theroux’s LA Stories. 9.30 MOVIE: Ride.(2016,M) 11.00 Magda’s Big National Health Check. Midnight Days Like These WithDiesel. 12.55 Long Lost Family 1.40 ABC News Update. 1.45 Close. 5.00 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.10 Dot 5.25 Baby Jake. 5.35 Late Programs. ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am The Darkside. Continued. (2013,PG) 7.15 The World’s Fastest Indian. (2005,PG) 9.35 The Finishers.(2013, PG, French) 11.15 Lost In Translation. (2003, M) 1.10pm Then Came You. (2020) 3.00 The Hollars. (2016,PG) 4.35 Walking On Sunshine. (2014,PG) 6.25 55 Steps. (2017,PG) 8.30 Ammonite. (2020, MA15+) 10.40 Blue Jasmine. (2013, M) 12.30am Late Programs. 6am Morning Programs. 2.25pm Football. Big Rivers AFL.Senior Women’s Grand Final. Ngukurr vEastside. Replay 3.45 Football. Big Rivers AFL.Senior Men’s Grand Final. NgukurrvKatherine Camels. Replay 5.50 Amplify. 6.20 News. 6.30 Nature’s Great Migration. 7.30 African American: ManyRivers To Cross. 8.30 To The Ends Of The Earth. 9.55 MOVIE: Lakota Moon. (1991, M) 11.30 Late Programs. NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm The Surgery Ship 2.00 House Of Wellness. 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep 3.30 Discover With RAA Travel. 4.00 DVine Living 4.30 South Aussie With Cosi. 5.00 My Greek Odyssey. 6.00 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report. 7.00 Border Security 8.30 Alan Carr’s Adventures With Agatha Christie 9.30 Steam TrainJourneys. 10.30 Late Programs. 6am MorningPrograms. 7.30 In Touch. 8.00 Beyond Today 8.30 The Incredible Journey. 9.00 TV Shop 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 Gideon’s Way. 11.40 The Miracle Tiger 12.10pm MOVIE: Hue And Cry. (1947) 1.50 MOVIE: Frankie And Johnny.(1966) 3.40 MOVIE: Alexander The Great.(1956,PG) 6.30 BondiVet 7.30 Mega Zoo 8.30 MOVIE: The Last Samurai. (2003, MA15+) 11.20 Late Programs. 9GEM (92,81) 7TWO (72, 62) 6am Children’s Programs. 1.30pm To Be Advised. 2.00 Motor Racing. SpeedSeries. Touring Car Racing Aust. Replay 4.00 DanceMoms. 5.00 About ABoy 5.30 Children’s Programs. 5.45 MOVIE: Home. (2015, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: Fast &Furious. (2009, M) 9.30 MOVIE: The Fast And The Furious: TokyoDrift. (2006,M) 11.30 Duncanville. Midnight Tourettes: Teenage Ticks 1.00 IAmCait 2.55 Late Programs. 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Hook Me Up! 11.00 My Fishing Place 11.30 Step Outside. Noon TheFishingShow

6.00 SevenNews. 7.00 Kath &Kim: Our Effluent Life. (PGlns) Acatch up with Kath and Kim. 8.10 Australia’s GotTalent. (Final, PG) In the grand final, the six remainingcontestants battle it out forthe chance to win $100,000 9.50 GreatestABBA Covers Versions Ever (Premiere, PG)A look at the greatest ABBA covers of all time.

7.30

8.30

11.30 TheSundayProject. (R) Alookatthe day’snews.

By AFN. 1.00 Hook,LineAnd Sinker 2.00 On TheFly 2.30 Merv Hughes Fishing. 3.00 Fish’n Mates. 4.00 Fishing Addiction. 5.00 Cricket.Women’s BigBash League. Match 56.Sydney Thunder vAdelaide Strikers. 8.30 MOVIE: HarryPotter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2. (2011,M) 11.05 Late Programs. 9GO! (93, 82) 7MATE (73,63) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00

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6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News

Mornings. 10.00 Landline.(R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

Time 3.00 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.10

George Clarke’sAmazing Spaces. (R)

5.00 Back Roads (R)

5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG,R)

6.00 TheDrum.

7.00 ABC News

7.30 7.30 PresentedbySarah Ferguson.

8.00 AustralianStory Australians tell personalstories.

8.30 MediaWatch. (PG) Paul Barry takes alook at thelatest issues affecting media consumers.

8.50 Folau. Part 1of2.Documentsthe story of one of Australia’s most gifted and controversial athletes, Israel Folau.

9.50 Planet America. (Final) Alook at the fallout from the midterms.

10.25 Parkinson In Australia. (PG, R)

11.10 ABC Late News.

11.25 TheBusiness (R)

11.40 Q+A. (R)

12.45 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With SamNeill. (PG, R) 1.30 Parliament Question Time. 2.30 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

4.25 The Drum. (R) 5.25 7.30.(R)

ABC TV PLUS (22)

Brian Johnson’s ALife On The Road. 12.50 Penn& Teller: Fool Us. 1.30 Staged 1.55 WouldILie To You? 2.25 ABC News Update. 2.30 Close. 5.00 Hoot Hoot Go!

Dot 5.25 Baby Jake 5.35 Late

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Kill Off.(PGl, R)

9.15 Living WithThe Boss. (PG) 11.15 Good

With Wood.(PGl, R) 12.10 WorldWatch. 2.00

Saving Lives At Sea. (R) 3.00 Destination

Flavour China Bitesize.(PGaw, R) 3.10 Luke

Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. (PG, R) 3.40

The Cook Up With Adam Liaw.(PG) 4.10

Tony Robinson’s World By Rail. (PG, R) 5.05

Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters AndNumbers. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R)

Presented by Jennifer Byrne

6.30 SBS WorldNews

7.30 Celebrity LettersAnd Numbers. (M) Hosted by MichaelHing.

8.30 Scotland’sExtreme Medics. (M) Glasgow medics rush to aman trappedunder aquad bike.InAberdeen an 80-year-old crashes her car.

9.30 Qatar: ADynasty With Global Ambitions. Aportrait of the Qatar’s ruling family –the Houseof Thani –which rules over an immensely rich Middle Eastern nation

10.30 FIFAWorld Cup 2022 Preview

11.30 Soccer 2022 FIFAWorld Cup. GroupB.England vIran.

2.30 Soccer. 2022 FIFA WorldCup Group A. Senegal vNetherlands. 5.30 Soccer.2022FIFAWorld Cup.Group B. USA vWales.

(7,6) TEN (10, 5) NINE (9, 8)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The MorningShow. (PG) 11.30 SevenMorningNews

12.00 MOVIE: Fatal Flatline. (2020, Mav, R) 2.00 World’sDeadliest: Commutes. (Mal) 3.00 TheChase. 4.00 SevenNews At 4. 5.00 TheChase Australia.

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Home And Away (PG)

7.30 Kath &Kim: 20 Preposterous Years. (PG) Takesalookback at the Kath&Kimuniverse.

8.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys. (Mls, R) It is Halloween in Finglas andAgnes is ready for the trick or treaters, howevershe gets morethan she bargained for when she receives aghostly visitor from her past.

10.45 TheLatest: SevenNews.

11.15 Heartbreak Island Australia. (Mal) The power plays intensifyaselimination looms. 12 30 TheResident. (Ma, R) [VIC]HomeShopping. 1.30 Harry’s Practice (R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 NBCToday 5.00 SevenEarly News. 5.30 Sunrise

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10.10 Suburban Gangsters: Nik RadevAnd Dino Dibra– Catch And KillYour Own. (MA15+dlv,R) Alook at Nik RadevAnd Dino Dibra.

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11.40 TheEqualizer (Mv,R) 12.35 AlmostFamily. (Mas) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’sVoice Of Victory. (PGa) 4.30 ACurrentAffair (R) 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today

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7.30 TheChallengeAustralia. (PGl) The game gets down and dirty as aChallenger looksfor revenge.

8.30 Ghosts (PGs) Sam meets a Viking ghost at theFarnsbys’ house who has an unexpected connection to Thorfinn. Trevor devises anew method for theghosts to trade favours.

9.00 FBI: MostWanted. (Mav) Rookie agent Ray Cannon struggles to prove himself when he joins the FugitiveTask Force.

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Spreadingthe joythisChristmas

SPREAD the joy of Christmas to those in need across Gippsland

There’s nothing like seeingthe delight on achild’s face when they open agift on Christmas morning. But, with the cost of living and poverty on the rise, we need your help make the festive season a little brighter for families in need across Gippsland.

At Uniting Vic.Tas,our Gifts for Families Appeal supports disadvantaged local familiesbyproviding toys and gifts generously donated by the community for children in need.

Uniting Vic.Tas Gippsland executive officer, Di Fisher, said more families than ever are expected to ask for help this year.

“We know cost-of-living pressures have stretched many budgets to breaking point,” Ms Fisher said.

“Whether it’s the cost of rent, gas and electricity or putting fuel in the car,weknow peopleare really struggling.

“Affording the necessities is now out of reach for many and they’re having to choose between putting food on the table and paying their bills.

“Gifts For Families is oneofthe highlightsof every year for us -weare determined that no one is going to go without agift this Christmas.

“Putting smiles on the faces of families and providing gifts to deserving children and young people is so rewarding.

“We hope you; your group, school, workplace or family can make sure there are gifts under every Christmas tree in our community.”

You can help by donating new gifts such as toys and puzzles, sports equipment, books, new clothes,

e-gift cards and gifts for adults.

Gifts can also be purchased online and sent to Uniting, 126 Raymond St, Sale.

Unitingare also looking for donations of nonperishablefoods, so familieshave somethingto put on the table on Christmas Day.

Donations can be made at Uniting offices at Sale,Bairnsdale,Morwelland Leongatha, and the Uniting Sale op-shop.

For more information, visit www.unitingvictas. org.au/local-christmas.

Kapelle Konzert captivates audience at Little Theatre

Harmonious voices accompanied the large ensemble orchestra of violins, violas, cellos, double bass, flutes, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, trumpets, trombone, percussion, and keyboard, in aperformance dedicated to orchestral and choral works.

The Kapelle Konzert featured students from the St Paul’s Academy of Music across Years 4 to 12 from the St Paul’s Warragul and Traralgon Campuses. Three past students from the classes of 2020 and 2021 also returned to play alongside students.

The St Paul’s Academy of Music focuses on the development of students’ chamber and orchestral skills through timetabled classes,

providing opportunities to perform at arange of venues.

Academy staff deliver professional instrumental and vocal workshops in addition to combined, cross-campus orchestral and choral rehearsals.

ST PAUL’S Anglican Grammar School Academy of Music students recently celebrated their love of music by performing in front of alivecommunity audience at Traralgon’s Little Theatre during their Kapelle Konzert.

Music maker: St Paul’s Year 4 student Tyrone on the violin.

Cello, yougot abass: Year 6 student Alexandraonthe cello photographs supplied

Precision: Year 8studentMitchell on the cello

Duo: On violin is Year 6student Angela and class of 2021 alumnae Tanvi.

Quilthanging

MOE Neighbourhood House recently held aquilt hanging event.

The public event was organised by students of the house’s quilting class, as well as staff, volunteers, and those in the community.

This event was to showcase the incredible talents that our quilting students have and to demonstrate the detail and effort that goes into patchwork.

More than 155 quilts were hung/ displayed to transform the Moe Neighbourhood House into acolourful display. Ahuge thank you those that displayed their quilts: Sandy, Esther, Lillian, Jeanette, Margaret, Elma, Tabitha and Rochelle, and to all other volunteers and those that came to support us and made the day the success it was.

There was araffle on the day. First prize was abeautiful quilt made by our students, second prize was an award-winning fruit cake, and third was abox of chocolates.

The food available on the day was Devonshire Tea, scones, jam and cream with tea or coffee.

There was also apop-up shop selling quilting supplies.

We raised an amazing amount for the neighbourhood house, totalling $472.

All money raised will support the community house in providing quality courses and services to the community and help us upgrade our resources used in the quilting class.

If anyone is interest in quilting classes, quilting machine hire, or any other courses provided by the MNH, please call (03) 5126 3123.

Free seminar

FIGHT Parkinson’s (a not-for-profit organisation supporting people living with Parkinson’s) is bringing an internationally renowned movement disorder Neurologist to Traralgon for afree community seminar to support locals living with Parkinson’s.

We are very keen for the community within and surrounding Traralgon to be aware of this rare opportunity to hear from and ask questions of Parkinson’s experts.

This free Parkinson’s Community Seminar is happening on Thursday, November 24 at the local RSL.

Time to tango

NEED to exercise but unmotivated, and going for awalk is uninteresting?

Try Argentine Tango -the walking dance.

Have fun with us on Wednesday nights 7-8:30pm at St David’s Uniting Church Hall, 9Campbell St, Yarragon (hall behind the church).

Learn the dance with us to then enjoy our social practice dance on the first Saturday night of each month.

Easy movement for the body, even for those with two left feet.

Research shows that dancing is beneficial for all types of medical conditions and for prevention of older lifestyle conditions.

No partner or experience required.

Fantastic group of people for social interaction, which is great for your mental health.

Keep healthy and active with us.

For more information, phone Naomi on 0405 739 819 or email naomib@ tangogippsland.com.

Giant collectablesfair

THE biggest ever collectables fair in Gippsland will be held at the Gippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium, Catterick Cres, Traralgon on the last weekend in November.

It will feature 200 trading tables and more than 90 competitive displays.

The usual Gippsland Antiques &Collectables Fair is this year combined with the 51st Australian National Collectables &Bottles Exhibition and Fair.

Traders are coming from every state in Australia and from New Zealand and Britain.

Every type of collectable will be for sale.

There will be free appraisals for antiques and collectables, and the public can vote for their favourite display of rare bottles and collectables.

Opening at 9.30am on Saturday, November 26 and Sunday, November 27.

Phone Wayne on 0435 587 535 for more details.

Budgeree Hall

WE are very excited to announce the return of eight members of the Monash Medical Orchestra to the Budgeree Hall on Thursday, November 24.

Performance at 2pm followed by a light afternoon tea.

Gold coin donation appreciated to support the orchestra members’ travel costs.

The Nexus Quartet, comprising Monash medical students Xenia, Brendan, Matthew and Stephanie, managed to band together at the beginning of the year after uncovering their common love for Shostakovich. They have since played at numerous events and concerts, hoping to bring the joy of the connection, or ‘nexus’, between music and medicine to many.

Triquetrum is apiano/stringtrio of three first year Monash medical students: Anne, Tharushi and Josh, who have become the closest of friends thanks to their common love for music.

They are very happy to have Serena, an amazing fellow cellist from the Monash Medical Orchestra, join them to form aquartet this time.

Since coming to Gippsland on tour together for the first time in August earlier this year, the two groups found aspark, and have worked together to bringtheir collaboration, Nexus xTriquetrum, back out to the region, this time as an octet.

Twilight Croquet

TRARALGON Croquet Club would like to invite you to ‘Twilight Croquet’, which runs during daylight savings.

It starts at 6:30pm on Wednesdays. The green fee is $10 for non members. It is ideal for those with work and family commitments.

The club is on McNairn Rd, Traralgon, next to the Greyhound track.

Any enquires, ring Alison on 0423 659 663.

Meditation evening

THE Planetary Meditation for Peace (also known as Twin Hearts Meditation) is ameditation designed to bless the Earth, and is an instrument of world service for peace, loving kindness, joy, goodwill and abundance.

In addition, this meditation cleanses and energises the energetic

body, while also promoting ahigher level of awareness and consciousness. After the meditation, you can experience afree pranic energy healing, which can address physical and emotional issues.

Note that thisisaguided meditation and no prior experience is required.

When: Every Tuesday 7pm-8.30 pm, everyThursday 10am-11.30am. Where: 2AvondaleRd, Morwell Cost: $5 (donation).

Contact: Garry 0476 162 646 Amanda 0411 051 044.

Boolarra Park

CHRISTMAS is fast approaching. Save the date: Friday, December 16. Boolarra Community Christmas Carols in the park.

Free barbecue from 5.30pm. Carols and visit from Santa.

MorwellCombined PensionersGroup

TO all members, you are reminded that our last social day before our fundraiser will be held on Monday, November 21.

We will be doing the last of the craft items at this gathering, so if you are interested in helping out please be sure to come along.

Bring your own lunchonthisday, but tea and coffee willbeavailable. There will also be raffles.

Our fundraiser ‘Saturday Morning Bargains’ is to be held on Saturday, December 3atthe senior citizens hall, Maryvale Cres, and doors will open at 9am.

There will be lots of bargains to be had including home-baked cakes, craft, plants and books and bric-abrac, and also fresh baked pies during the morning.

CommunityCorner with Liam Durkin

Winner winner: Moe ViewClub celebrate with Yvonne (centre)onbeing awarded best hat. Moe ViewClubwill next meet on December 7. Formoreinformation, phone SueRiches on 0417515 745.

Great work: Moe Neighbourhood House recently raised more than $400 through its Quilt Hanging photographs supplied

All are welcome to come along.

Our Christmas break-up lunch is to be held on Monday, December 5, and we are only catering for members who have paid for lunch.

There will be lots of raffles during the afternoon, and our Christmas hampers will be drawn on Monday, December 19 -our last gathering for the year.

If you need any information on any of the above please phone the president on 5135 3440 or 0414 962 615.

Cuppa and chat

DROP in for afree cuppa at 7Anzac St (next to the Moe Police Station) 10am to 12pm Friday mornings.

For more information, phone Alice on 04181 75 042 or Jan on 0475 067 145 at Moe-Newborough Anglican Church.

Maryvale Probus Club

OUR members visited SafeTech Moe on Thursday, November 3, and were given an insight into agreat manufacturing success story, and evolvement into aniche market.

Members have varied social and friendship gatherings, which include breakfasts and lunches, book reading at the Morwell Library, visits to interesting venues, and the general meeting at the Morwell RSL, every third Thursday of each month at 10am.

Guest speakers are invited to most meetings, and give our club insight into relative issues of retirees, and/or interesting topics of everyday life.

Our October speaker outlined the care and principals of Lifeline Australia, the November meeting speaker is from amedia publication that has access to most homes in the Latrobe Valley.

Visitors are invited to the member meetings, and to ascertain if Probus is asuitable extension of their retired or semi-retired life for the over 60s age group.

Phone Neil on 0439 562 221 for any further information.

Comedy show

OVER 25 years of comedian genius, international renowned, Joe Avati, is back in the Latrobe Valley, presenting his new show: When IWas Your Age -World Tour.

Come along with the family and be entertained on how this amazing comedian tackles the ‘then versus now’ generational differences of today’s children.

Lots of belly laughs to be had and shared.

Tickets at Gippsland Performing Arts Centre, Traralgon. Phone (03) 5176 3333

Chessresults

MATT Bolding returned to the fray with awin against Ian Hamilton, then followed up with another win and aloss.

Peter Bakker claimed the ‘nasty’ knights worked in favour sometimes, but was also his demise.

Alow-level was the early sign for Bob Cooper, who recovered, finding the clever checkmate pattern.

Agreeing to the draw, Hamilton and Steve Ahern reflected on the errant occurrences of that clash and the topsy-turvy nature of their round.

In other Latrobe Valley Chess Association action, Peter Bakker showed strength to finish the round undefeated, and Bob Cooper held the draw in key games to be next best.

Steve Ahern suffered the mishaps from miscalculation.

Too many mistakes was the problem for Ian Hamilton.

Cliff Thornton was not able to take the chances offered.

For more details, phone Ian

Hamilton on 5134 1971 or Cliff Thornton on 0413 330 458.

Rail trail

FRIENDS of the Gippsland Plains Rail Trail, formed last year, has had asignificant impact on the southern section of the trail between Traralgon and Glengarry.

We are keen to promote our group to attract new members.

If you have recently driven or ridden out of Traralgon towards Glengarry, you will have seen how neat and tidy the rail trail area is.

You may also have noticed the extensive recent tree planting and observed that the surface of the rail trail is being prepared to be sealed.

This is due in large part to the efforts of the Friends of the Gippsland Plains Rail Trail, who have contributed around athousand volunteer hours since forming.

New members are always welcome.

If you are interested in finding out more, or would like to join the group, call Peter on 0431 940 171.

Christmas market

WITH avariety of local stall holders, all items handmade by stallholders, come along and enjoy the Christmas spirit.

The event will be on November 26, 11am till 3.00pm.

Venue: Morwell RSL ANZAC Room.

Cost: Gold coin donation. All our fundraising is for veterans and their families.

Artand craft

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Group is holding an art and craft exhibition at the Maltese Community Centre, on Henry St, Morwell, from 11am to 3pm this Sunday (November 20).

Adisplay of artwork by local artists, displays of craft work by our members and by the Latrobe Valley Quilters will be showcased. Some items will be for sale

including cushions, good-quality second-hand clothing, handmade cards, organic soaps and creams.

Light refreshments, tea and coffee will be provided.

Free entry.

For more information, phone Elizabeth on 0478 084 413, or email secretary.iwg@gmail.com

Christmas market

OLD Gippstown, Moe will be having their Christmas Market this Saturday (November 19). Many stalls, food vans and music to enjoy.

Santa will be visiting Old Gippstown on the day.

Gates open at 2pm and it concludes at 7pm.

Dogs welcome on aleash.

Entry is by gold coin donation.

TraralgonLions Christmas

AFTER two years downtime due to COVID restrictions, the Traralgon Lions Club Senior Citizens Christmas Party is returning in 2022.

The party will again be held at Kildare Hall, Lavalla College Kosciusko St on Sunday, December 11 starting at 1:30pm.

All the usual attractions including Borderline and the rockers plus afew surprizes.

Afternoon tea will be served and Santa will drop in for avisit.

Tickets are available out the front of Darren Chester’s office in Franklin St on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays in November between 10am and midday, or at the SpinningWheel in the Plaza.

They are also available from Pat on 5176 6238.

Buses will call at the aged care facilities as required.

For transport or other enquiries, call Glen on 0408 587 523.

Lions Christmas Cakes

THE very popular Traralgon Lions Christmas cakes have arrived and

are on sale at all the usual outlets.

These are OfficeWorks, Rutters Butchery and Poultry in Mannys Market, Seymour Street News, RACV, CBA, Westpac, Ramsey’s Barbers, Miss Millys, Stoddarts Butchery, Margaret Squires Optometrists andKeith Williams Real estate.

They will also be on sale at the Traralgon Farmers Market.

MorwellChristmas Family FunDay

THE Rotary Clubs’ of Hazelwood and Morwell wish to announce the inaugural Morwell Christmas Family Fun Day, to be held at the Morwell Recreation Reserve on Sunday, December 11 between 10am and 3pm.The event will offer food vans, market stalls, local community service providers, activities for kids, and avisit from Santa.

If any food vendors, market stall holders or community service providers would like to participate, please email mffdmorwell@gmail.com for further information

Hot springs reopening

METUNG Hot Springs is scheduled to open on Friday, November 18.

Significant rainfall has impacted the construction and commissioning schedule for completion.

The springs reservations team is getting in touch with customers who had made bookings from October 29 to November 17 to offer priority rescheduling and further assistance.

The hot springs is being managed by Adrian Bromage, who won the Sandover Medal in 1998 for best player in the Western Australia Football League.

High Street Community Hub

ORCHESTRA Chamber Concert featuring performances from classical quartets Nexus and Triquetrum will be held Friday, November 25 at High Street Community Hub, 4High St Moe from 10.45am for 11am start through till 1pm.

Admission is $5 for morning tea. Gold coin donation for the Orchestra. Bookings essential/seats are limited.

On Tuesday, December 6, there will be ajazzconcert featuring The Alan Clark Swing Combo from 10.30am for an 11amstart through till 1pm Same cost as above.

For Bookings please email 4highstreethub@gmail.com or phone text 0493 131 453 and leave a message and the coordinator will call/ text you back toconfirm.

Youcan be apartof Community Corner

IF you are acommunity group and have any news items you need publicised, feel free to email us at news@lvexpress.com.au.

You can address the correspondence to Editor, Liam Durkin.

Please write ‘Community Corner’ in the subject line and nothing else.

Deadline is Friday 9am to appear in the following Wednesday issue.

Effort: Friends of the Gippsland Plains Rail Trail Group have been busy maintaining the upkeep of the Traralgon to Glengarrypath.

Offshore windfarms dangerous

AUSTRALIA is asignatory to EAAF, which provides important flyways and habitat to millions of the world’s migratory birds.

China, Japan and Korea are also signatories.

Areas of importance are nominated and classified under water bird criteria and the Ramsar Convention.

Corner Inlet has been acknowledged as one of the most important in Australia.

The Corner Inlet Ramsar Site, which is estimated to support 50 per cent of the migratory birds in Victoria, as well as being amajor flyway between Tasmania, Flinders Island and Corner Inlet.

There is no way the state government and the Star of the South can honestly guarantee the migratory birds and their habitat would not be affected by scores of wind turbines installed beside them.

It is not asurprisethe state government would jeopardise the Ramsar site, the Commonwealth government, not complying to the Ramsar Convention and supporting the wind farm location, is aconcern.

Bryan Kesby, Traralgon

Political games

THE National Party is aclassic case of aparty who take their supporters for granted, with a strong Nationals vote in East Gippsland propped up by apopular federal member Darren Chester.

There is astrong argument in the state election for aprotest vote to lower their winning margins and smarten them up.

Aclassic example is in the difficult area of drug and alcohol addiction, which affects regional people who need urgent access to intensive treatment.

The human toll of addiction is at the centre of misery suffered by many victims and their families.

The Nationals Melina Bath has politicised the opening of anew rehab facility in Traralgon to get support in the Morwell electorate by lobbying to ban people from outside the local area being admitted.

This would impact on East Gippslanders.

In parliament and on community radio, Ms Bath has put asomewhat confusing message that summed up aperson’s access to health care can be based on their postcode.

Ms Bath’s approach is based on the assumption that people from outside the Latrobe Valley won’t hear what she says on FM radio.

Imagine if Gippslanders were denied access to the Royal Children’s Hospital based on our postcode.

The Nationals cannot be running around Gippsland playing communities off against each other in such adisgraceful fashion, and a swing to the ALP might just send them the right message.

Phillip Edwards, Hazelwood South

Representing local views

IREFER to Leanne Vella’s letter (‘Weighing into the debate’ Latrobe Valley Express -9/11/22) in whichshe lamented that her local ALP candidate was not even from the Latrobe Valley, and came from Drouin.

Ithought she might be interested to learn that ‘parachuting’ candidates in from other electorates is acommon practise and, worse, perfectly legal.

Have your say

THE Latrobe Valley Express welcomes letters to the editor.

Preference will be given to brief, concise letters which address local issues.

The editor Liam Durkin, reserves the right to edit letters for reasons of space and clarity, and may refuse to publish any letter without explanation.

The Express does not publish letters from anonymous contributors.

Letters must include aphone number, email address and the author’s hometown for purposes of substantiating authenticity.

The views expressed in letters to the editor are those of the writers, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Latrobe Valley Express management or staff.

Email letters to news@lvexpress.com. au and include ‘letter to the editor’ in the subject line.

Deadline for letters is Thursday3pm.

In fact at the upcoming November elections, there are at least two other candidates standing in Morwell who have also come in from other areas.

But it doesn’t stop there -Iwonder if she realises that four out of our five present Upper House, Eastern Victoria Region MPs don’t live locally? One lives at Ballarat; his predecessor lived in Carlton North, two others apparently live in the Yarra Ranges, while another rents an office at Warragul.

Is it any wonder that Gippsland is last in line for state funding, that our roads are crumbling, our schools in need of urgent maintenance, and we are faced with the loss of our last two power stations, the closure of our timber industry and an escalation in power costs in our farms and homes?

And they think they deserve another term. Imagine if we had five local, committed MPs actively working to represent our region instead of one?

Greg Hansford

Upper House candidate, Freedom Party of Victoria

The Latrobe Valleycan’t afford Labor

THE Latrobe Valley can no longer afford the ‘debt and deficit’ culture of the Andrews and Maxfield Labor Party.

According to The Australian Financial Review,Victoria’s budget debt in the financial year 2022/23 is projected to soar to over $1,800,000,000.00, with an increasing state deficit of $9,700,000,000.00.

That’s amassive debt that our grandkids will be left to pay off.

In effect, money that would have been better spent on new hospitals, more schools, better roads, modern trains and improved services and care for our ageing senior citizens. So what are Maxfield’s Labor Party conniving to impose upon us. The premature closure of Yallourn power station in 2028, then gradually some of the Loy Yang power stations.

At atime when Victoria’s electricity prices are the highest ever known.

According to The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO, spot prices in Eastern Australia, including Victoria, have doubled in recent years, they were $130 mega-watt hour in 2019 across the average first quarter, during the heat wave conditions of the droughts. Today, they are astaggering $264 mega-watt hour.

The only reason Labor want to close power stations is to satisfy the ideology of the Greens. In modern politics, Labor’s primary vote is among the worst in its history, hence their reliance on Greens ballot box preferences. This same preference dependency is the reason former Labor Party Member Tracie Lund is acandidate in this election. Her preferences will be needed to boost Labor’s two- party preferred vote.

The false environmental excuses for power station closures have proven to be nothing more than political lies, statistical exaggerations and media misinformation.

The ozone layer has not disappeared, the seasonal temperatures have not increased, sea levels have not risen and the carbon dioxide we exhale in every breath is acolorless, odorless and harmless gas.

In fact, the carbon in our atmosphere is so negligible its measured in parts per million.

According to CSIRO, the mean global annual level of CO2 in the atmosphere was 410 parts per million (2019). In percentage terms that’s 0.04 per cent of our atmosphere containing our harmless, odorless and colorless carbon dioxide gas. Any measurable increase in atmospheric carbon is almost certainly due to more than 100,000 jet aircraft flying every day across the world, exhausting millions of litres of burnt aviation fuel, since the mid 20th century.

As mentioned we can’tafford Labor, but neither should we indulge the overt corruption and collusion of the Andrews administration.

Their abuse in office includes everything from excessive COVID-19 lockdowns, to cronyism toward infrastructure contractors.

In reviewing Labor’s unacceptable COVID-19 incompetence, we found that Victorians in Melbourne suffered 262 days in lockdown -the longest and harshest in the world.

When most capital cities like Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth had only around 60-70 days, with Sydney on 159 days.

The corruption in Andrews’ approach to infrastructure is profound, with billions of dollars awarded to the same corporations and sub-contractors, again and again, to build unnecessary sky rails across Melbourne suburbs, unneeded new metro tunnels costing over $11 billion, and the creation of the needless Level Crossing Removal Authority that’s estimated to cost tax payers $14.8 billion to alter 110 level crossings.

The truth is; no more than adozen actually warranted maintenance based on safety and traffic considerations.

This scurrilous type of ‘rorting’ is magnified, when the use of unionised workers results in exorbitant pay packets, aproportion of which then goes to their respective unions, who in turn donate to the Labor Party’s political campaigns.

What wehave witnessed over the past decade is the nexusofGreens extremism, complicityof stateLabor governments, and the corruption of corporate Australia to market alie.

Its estimated that 99 per cent of homes with solar panels still dependonmains power, with 80-85 per cent of mains power being generated by coal gas power stations.

Renewable energy has proven expensive, inefficient and unreliable, costing Australian tax payers $13 billion per year.

The undeniable truth is it’s impossible to change weather, climate or nature, but exceedingly easy to influence students, stock markets, media and the general public.

If voters of Latrobe Valley want to safeguard power generation jobs and stop the premature closure of Yallourn and Loy Yang power stations, please put the Labor-Greens and Independents candidates last on your ballot papers when allocating preferences.

Tom Quinn, Moe

Policies not rock throwing

WE are close to the state election, and the trend state wide shows the ALP team winning.

In the Latrobe Valley, MPs elected into both houses under the National Party banner have had easy work, throwing rocks at the ALP government, in essence then saying ‘duh, look at me I’m such afighter’.

Even so, despite silly games, major projects and the Commonwealth Games have been

Countdown is on: With the stateelectioncoming up,voices from different sides of politics have had their sayintoday’sletters section. file photographs

to migrating birds across world

This budget, it is about $600 million for all of Victoria, which has more than 150,000 kilometres of road.

Daniel Andrews and Labor try to pull the wool over our eyes with aSpring blitz to patch up the cracks and potholes -but Idon’t need to tell you that these band aids only last amatter of weeks.

Iamnot going to give political spin.

The fact that the roads have been neglected for so long means we have amammoth taskahead to bring them up toscratch -but Iamupfor the job.

That is why the Liberals and The Nationals have set aside $1billion every year for 10years to fix the roads properly -making them safer for usand our vehicles.

There is aclearchoice this election.

Avote for Labor is for more burst tyres, buckled rims and speed reductions on country roads.

The Liberals and The Nationals have alongterm plan to improveour road infrastructure. The choice is yours.

Peter Walsh, Leader of The Nationals

funded by the ALP government partnering with Latrobe City, who decide the locations in Traralgon for instance.

We’ll be lucky to get abus shelter from the Liberal’s razor gang.

The biggest issue this election is the survival of the National Party, with one solitary member in the upper house.

Moe, with aretiring Liberal MP, has been joined into the seat of Morwell, so the Moe community will have aNationals candidate from their Traralgon stronghold on the ballot for the lower house.

They will see how the Nationals operate with one eye on attacking the ALP, with the other eye on shafting the hapless Liberals.

Liberal and Labor voters must remember the Coalition Parties have asordid deal called the Coalition Agreement, that means if the Nats win the seat this year it becomes permanent property of the National Party, out of bounds to the Liberal Party.

We could end up in amarriage not exactly made in heaven.

Usually in the seat of Morwell, there are independent candidates, who by astrange coincidence always direct preferences away from Labor.

Voters should not have do a‘what if analysis’ on how to vote cards to detect preference harvesters from the Nats.

Aruleofthumb is that agenuine independent’s how to vote will only say ‘vote one for me, numbering all other squares as you wish’.

The Nats have spent their time in the last few turbulent years not developing policies but throwing rocks at the government, while exploiting disruption borne of the pandemic to get votes.

We do not need any more lazy National Party rock throwers in the Latrobe Valley.

We need members of aLabor government showing leadership, with the courage to take the flak that comes from making hard decisions in a rapidly changing region.

The Liberals and National Party rock throwers are irrelevant to our future.

Professional practice

IWRITE to express my disbelief of the LNP proposal to put armed PSO officers in hospitals.

Iwould like to share my experiences in the hospital system from October 2021 till now.

 Health problems in breathing, stamina and a general lack of life functions;

 Numerous medical testing resulting in a triple bypass operation, and;

 During this period Ihad numerous ambulance transports.

All of the above were performed in afully professional and caring way. Ican’t thank all these loving professional people enough for extending my life’s journey. My wife was given advise for my care between medical check-ups which she was most grateful for.

On Friday, September 30, Icut my leg in my shed. Being on blood thinning medication Ihad alot of blood loss and my wife rang Nurse On Call, who was extremely helpful and suggested an ambulance. We live five minutes from LRH, so it was decided she would drive me there.

Upon arrival, we observed the processing of people arriving and being processed. This was done in aprofessional, caring and more affectionate, politemanner than could be hoped for.

Some patients were anxious and asked how long the wait would be, this again was handled with grace and professionalism.

Thank you to all involved.

In all my visits to hospitals, LRH or Monash Medical, Ihavenever felt threatened or unsafe, and the thought of armed PSO officers in this environment Ifind totally aggressive.

It’s the way you approach asituation as to the response you will receive.

Aspecial shout out to treating medic Frank. Bruce and SueWard, Traralgon

Supporting the Doc

IWANT to thank Dr Kate Maxfield and her volunteers who stopped by my area in Morwell recently.

Dr Kate really wanted to understand the issues that are important to me, rather than telling me what Iwantedtohear.

After expressing that access to doctors and the

cost of living are the most important things to me, it was pleasing to hear that Dr Kate has a plan for these.

She told me that her plan for Morwell includes more general practitioners, and anew mental health facility on top of the Latrobe Regional Hospital’s current upgrades.

They will also train more nurses, including aged care, which is important to know that my family will be looked after in their older years by locals.

They will bring back the state-owned SEC and undo the damage that privatisation has caused in our region for far too long, which we have seen with the region’s power stations and hospitals.

Like what is done in other states, this will bring down the cost of living and the cost of doing business, providing opportunity for more local jobs.

It was also pleasing to hear that they are investing into education and sports facilities for the kids too.

Good luck to Dr Kate. She will be getting my vote.

Brett Osler, Morwell

Roads need proper fixing

TRAVELLING the length and breadth of our state, I’ve met incredible people doing great things in their communities.It’s something I enjoy the most about my role as Leader of The National Party.

But no matter what direction Ihead, the community sentiment is the same, and it’s something Ihavewitnessed firsthand -our road network is crumbling right before our eyes.

By this point, in the lead up to the election, we’ve heard that sentence amillion times over. But our regional communities have to deal with it every day; these are people who rely on Victoria’s road network to make aliving and keep our state moving.

It must be said, this neglect doesn’t happen by accident, and it certainly doesn’t happen overnight.

Our roads have perished under the neglect of the Andrews Labor government, which has pared road maintenance to the bone.

Mix of energy sources are needed

ALL forms of extremism are evil and bad.

Whether it be the religious extremism of ISIS or the political (net-zero) extremism of Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

Rather than strive for some sort of balance of coal and gas (and even nuclear power), along with wind and solar energy, ‘Blackout Bowen’ has almost single-handedly promoted an extreme agenda of ‘only renewables (wind and solar) will save the planet’.

On this note, Iamnot totally against renewables, and Ibelieve some limited investment is warranted, but only as an investment into a ‘supplementary’ form of secondary-energy.

To be sure, wind and solar are technologically incapable of being the primary and only source of energy that will keep the lights on 24 hours a day seven days aweek, and thuspreventrolling blackouts in the near future.

The chief reason for this acceptance of reality is because wind and solar energyare ‘intrinsically intermittent’ and are thus entirely reliant on the vagaries of the weather.

So, in the absence of wind and solar (at night and for most of winter when the sun does not shine), the only reliable form of sustainable energy is coal and gas, as only coal and gas can provide the vital “firming baseload power” to meet our energy needs 24/7 and into the future.

Or, put another way, amix of coal,gas, nuclear, and renewables is the only sensible way forward for the Australian economy.

To put all your eggs so to speak in the one renewable-basket by way of ‘prematurely’ decommissioning coal-fired power stations and blowing up chimneys is reckless, economywrecking insanity in my book.

To repeat, the technology underpinning renewables simply does not exist. Itisabout 50 to 100 years away at best. This unrealistic and unhealthy obsession with wind and solar by way of promotinganextremist agenda, whereby ‘only renewables will save the planet’ -and on such a truncated timeline (achieving net-zero by 2035) is ideological madness and can only result in the beheading of the Australian economy.

Phillip Edwards, Churchill

Joseph Lis, Morwell

Great job: LetterwriterBruce Ward hasspokenabout hispositiveexperience at Latrobe Regional Hospital.

THE qualityofthe work at High Tree Tree Services is as high at the trees theyfell.

High Tree Tree Services is not onlycapable of leaving customers satisfied with howtheir garden has been pruned, butbeing reliable is a main priority.

“We’re averyfriendly, reliable service.Customersare very happy with the end result,”owner Rick Kruyt said.

The business startedin1990, and today, Rickremains at the helm with about 40 years’ experience in the industry.

As afamily-oriented enterprise, Rick’sson Daniel will eventually take over theoperations

High Tree Tree Services is based in Trafalgar and Pakenham,and cuts trees MondaytoFriday, but the staffare morethan happyto offerquotes on the weekend if need be

Glider court ruling ablow to forestry

By DANIEL PEDERSEN

THE fate of the Victorian forestry industry and the state’s native greater and yellow-bellied gliders is being fought about and the argument has landed with the Victorian Supreme Court.

No-one may log state forest without the consent of VicForests.

Last Friday acourt ruling was made that could only be considered ablow for VicForests.

Establishedin2004, VicForests is astate-owned business managing the harvest,saleand regrowing of sustainable timber from Victorian State Forests on behalf of the Victorian government.

Environmentalists argue VicForests doesn’t know, nor care, where the gliders liveand does little to determine their presence and as aresult is endangering them by destroying their habitat.

VicForests is currently locked out of most of Victoria’slogging coupes because it has either been ordered not to logbythe courts,orbecause ongoing litigation has halted it.

ASupreme Court 167-page ruling from Justice Melinda Richards on November 4saidVicForests was failing in its attempttoprotect the greater andyellow-bellied gliders according to acode of conduct related to timber harvesting.

Justice Richards ruled VicForests was failing in its surveys carried outbefore assessinga coupe scheduledfor harvest andwhether it contained greater gliders or yellow-bellied gliders.

The ruling said VicForestsrelied on ‘spotlight surveys’ carried out by its own staff or contractors.

It noted VicForests also used Department of Environment Land Water and Planning surveys.

None made full surveys of any coupe.

VicForests used transects aboutakilometre long within acoupe ‘along an existing road or track’.

Justice Richards said that survey method left most of the coupe unsurveyed.

And without knowing where the gliders were, it was impossible to take measures to address risk to them.

The state government must adhere to ‘regional forestry agreements’ (RFA) signed with the federal government.

This ensures the federal government meets all of the international agreements it has signed by requiringstategovernments and theiragencies to meet RFAs.

The RFAs must in turn meet the

federal government’sEnvironment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, acentral pillar of national environmental law.

This Act has been written with much assistance fromscientists and adherence to the EPBCAct means Australia’s international commitments are being met.

The RFAs contain certain principles when it comestomanagement of floraand fauna, particularly at-risk or threatened species.

One of those is the ‘precautionary principle’. The precautionaryprinciple requires two

questions to be answered: are there threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage? and; Is there alack of scientific certainty?

A‘ýes’ to either of those questions means the precautionary principle must be applied.

In the case of the gliders, which are threatened with extinction, Justice Richards, with the benefit of extensive evidence from both sides, ruled the precautionary principle was not being applied.

VicForeststold the ABC it was disappointed and was “reviewing the decision and consideringour options”

FACTS

THE southern greater glider, Petauroides volans, is Australia’s largest gliding mammal.

It is one of three of Australia’s species of greater glider, the only one that occurs in Victoria, and thought to be the most at risk.

Greater gliders are solitary creatures, whose ranges at times may overlap.

Males maintain arange of one to four hectares, females arange between one and three hectares.

In their home range they may occupy as many as 20 den trees, using hollowbearing trees for shelter or nesting.

Half of Victoria’s forest set aside for conservation of the southern greater glider burned during the 2019-20 bushfires.

The yellow-bellied glider is Australia’s second-largest glider and can be found in Australia’s eastern forests from Queensland to Victoria.

It lives in family groups of three to six.

None the wiser: Thesouthern greater glider probably doesn’t know thehubbubithas caused in the human worldasitflies from tree to tree eating flowers. photograph supplied

Clearing Sales •

SEWING MACHINE

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SUN SHADE

TRAFALGAR South, Windrush Cottage, 698 Sunny Creek Road, Sat. 8-4pm. Community sale. Tent, camp gear, fridge, canoe, folding ladder, tools, Kirby vac. cleaners, electric heater, household appliances and wares.

TRARALGON, 31B Phillip St, Sat. 8am. Garage/ wardrobe sale. Designer labels and pre-loved women's clothing, $10 and $20 each. Household items, jewellery, furniture, more.

TRARALGON, 8Greythorn Road, Sat., 8am -1pm.

Meetings •

YINNAR HOTEL COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE LTD -A.G.M.

To be held at the Yinnar Community Hotel from 7.00pm on Wednesday, 23 November 2022. All shareholders welcome. At the conclusion of the meeting alight supper will be provided.

For all enquiries please contact: Peter Lawrence 0439 732 694 (Secretary Yinnar Community Hotel Co-Op)

ADORABLE snuggly puppy Chihuahua xChinese Crested small maturity size, suited to inside lifestyle. Long coat, black with tan points, female. Perfect home is very important to me, $1500. PER No. EE108259, m/c 953010100407664. Please call for further details and photos 0455 355 885.

ANGUS/FRIESIAN X steers, 15-16 months old, bucket reared, very quiet, drenched, vaccinated and dehorned. Friesian $1250, Angus X$1950, can deliver locally. 0408 363 364.

BULLS for Hire/Sale

Angus, Limousin, Jersey, Hereford and Friesian, very quiet. 0447 331 762.

GOLDFISH

All sizes, pond or tank, Bristle Nosecatfish. Phone 0411 604 704.

ISA BROWNS

C'CHILL, 1Williams Ave, Sat. 9-2. Items must go! Shed, furniture, books, toys, h/hold, CDs, DVDs. On sale, plants, jams, pickles. Sausage sizzle.

MOE

East Street, Saturday, 8am start. Welder and lots more.

CLEARING SALE

Morwell, 277 Princes Dve, Saturday, 9am-2pm. Everything cheap. Tools, craft, furniture, antiques.

MORWELL, 31 Vincent Road, Fri., 12pm to 4pm, Sat. 8am -12pm. CDs, records, tools, collectables, shed and mancave items. No early callers.

NEWB., 15 Stamford St, Sat., 9am -1pm.

GENTLEMAN, widower, n.s., kind, caring, honest,

MALE, 53 years, would like to meet lady, non smoker for relationship. Ph John 0473 571 278.

MALE 54 looking for friendship or relationship with a lady. Live in Eagle Point, distance not aproblem. Interests incl. gardening, fishing, camping, animals, boating and enjoy asocial drink. Non smoker. Please reply to: Rod, Reply Number 3278, LV Express, 21 George St, Morwell 3840.

Adult Services •

Busty, Sexy Emma

New in Morwell. Pretty, gorgeous. no rush service. In/out calls. 0422 483 977.

GUITAR LESSONS

TRAFALGAR,

CUT IT DOWN

Specialising in tree pruning, tree removal, gardening and planting. Same day quotes. Local friendly service. Ph 0434 114 139.

ELECTRICIAN

Specialising in all domestic work. REC.4188. Phone Peter 0438 177 153 or Carol 5126 2110.

Gas Appliances

Install -Service -Repairs Co Testing -Gas Safety Check.Contact Paul 0428 877 432. Lic.103230.

Situations Vacant

Afulltimeposition exists for an enthusiastic person with customer focus to help us continue growing in our Morwell Branch.

The successful applicant will be required to work within our small team environment.

Ideally, you will have experience in stores and/or spare parts/a mechanical aptitude with a background in external sales.

Previous experience in the Bearing Industry would be adefinite advantage. Computer literate and a Victorian driver's licence are required.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

● Counter/phone sales and quoting

● Goods received/purchase orders

● Stock control

Remuneration to be negotiated dependent upon experience.

Only mailed or emailed applications will be accepted.

Managing Director PO Box 3100, Morwell 3841 leanne@gippslandbearings.com.au

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Aboriginal Communities Engagement

Job No.: 641155

TRAFALGAR HIGH SCHOOL HOSPITALITY TRAINEESHIP

Ahospitality traineeship is available at Trafalgar High School for the 2023 school year.

This position commences from 27 January 2023.

To apply please call Sharon Lowater -Business Manager on 5633 1733 for acopy of the selection criteria.

Then email your cover letter, resume and selection criteria responses to trafalgar.hs@education.vic.gov.au attention to Sharon. Applications close Wednesday, 16 November 2022

LAWN MOWING

and Handyman. Pruning, rubbish removal, minor home and garden maintenance. Ph 0400 115 086.

Need aPlumber?

Small jobs, hot water, toilets, taps, roofing. Over 20 yrs exp. 0437 759 224.

RECEPTIONIST (Full Time)

Littleton Hackford Solicitors Traralgon

This Front of House position involves assisting a likeable client base, solicitors and staff.

The successful applicant must demonstrate a suitable level of maturity and recognise the importance of initial impression.

General reception duties include meet and greet, phone, email, mailroom, registering matters and assisting conveyancing staff.

Asolid position to replace along-term retiring staff member.

Application and resume supported by driver's licence ID invited to: danl@littletonhackford.com.au by 18 November 2022

Property Maintenance

Vic Marino's Painting

Lead

Location: Rural Health sites -Bairnsdale, Sale, Traralgon, Churchill, Warragul, Bendigo Mildura, Leongatha

Employment Type: Part-time, fraction (0.7) Duration: Fixed-term appointment until 31 December 2024

Remuneration: Pro-rata of $122,734 -$130,276 pa HEW Level 09 (plus 17% employer superannuation)

The Opportunity

The Aboriginal Communities Engagement Lead utilises senior-level specialist knowledge to oversee and support the delivery of high-quality community engagement, education and research services to support the operations of Monash Rural Health. Only Indigenous Australians are eligible to apply for this position as it is exempt under the Special Measure Provision, Section 12 (1) of the Equal Opportunity Act 2011 (Vic).

If this sounds like aposition that suits your current career focus we look forward to hearing from you. Monash University is an exciting place to work for Indigenous Australians. Support and development of Indigenous staff are at its heart, as we feel that working at Monash University should be acareer, not just ajob. Our Indigenous Employee Network, hosted by the William Cooper Institute, will give you the opportunity to meet and develop professional and personal relationships with other Indigenous employees through social events and more formal activities. The friendly and supportive environment at Monash will ensure that you will have the assistance you need to develop your career.

Enquiries

Cathy Ward, School Manager, +61 35440 9004

Closing Date: Thursday, 1December 2022, 11:55pm AEDT

For further information, Position Description and to apply, please visit: www.monash.edu/jobs Search JobNo.: 641155.

HEAD CHEF &SOUSCHEF

We are seeking enthusiastic Full Time employees to join our team.

● Previous experience in asimilar role required

● Competitive negotiable salary +super +KPI's Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please email resume and cover letter to: gm@moersl.com.au attn: Brendan

Would you like to deliver the Latrobe Valley Express newspaper to individual homes on Tuesday and/or Wednesday afternoons in Morwell, Traralgon, Moe, Newborou gh and Churchill? Please apply to the Circulation Manager 0456 000 541.

Please note: Children must be 11 years or over as we will need to apply for agovernment Child Employment Permit Children younger than 11 cannot or will not be accepted. Adult deliverers also welcome.

St Paul’s Anglican GrammarSchool is seeking applications for the following position.

AdministrationAssistant Warragul JuniorSchool

Fulltime PermanentOngoing Commencing 18 January2023

If you areinterested pleaseforward acurrent resumeand cover letter to hr@stpaulsags.vic.edu.au

Fora copyofthe PositionDescription please refer to our website: www.stpaulsags.vic.edu.au

Applications close 5pm Friday18November 2022

ICU/PICU NURSES

CENTRE

MANAGER

GP1 650 14 7

wanted forhomecare in Moe, Trafalgar Warragul and Trida.

Minimum of 2years ICU/PICU experience. Must be Ventilation and Tracheostomy competent Competitive payrates. Please contact Patrik on 0410 942 230 or email patrik@intensive careathome.com GP1 650 12 2

ANEW OPPORTUNITY FOR THE NEW YEAR! This is acriticalrole in our growing centre

This is arole with real impact and it is an important part of our upcoming expansion. You'll work with our community committee, to provide an essential local service in Yarram. You will be trusted with the attraction and leadership of our amazing team, and be apart of aunique and considerable support system, to offer the highest standard of Early Years Education in Yarram.

Attractive Remuneration Package available to the successful applicant.

For the Position Description Please contact Helen Dwyer on 0427 551 775.

Applications should be forwarded to: HR@yarramelc.com.au

By 5pm on Monday, 5December 2022.

SAFETYENGINEER

Salaryrange -$90,067-$102,192

Employment type -Ongoing -full time (the department provides flexible workingarrangements).

Usual work location-Based in Traralgon with the flexibility to work from alternative locations across Gippsland.

About the role The Safety Officer sits within Regional Transport and is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of safety programs and procedures to ensureDepartment of Transport’s proactive safety cultureisembedded in the region.

The suitable candidate will hold aCertificate IV in Workplace Health and Safety.

Our ideal candidate will thrive on continuous improvement and lead strategies to improve the Department’s safety culture.

HowtoApply

Please visit the careers.vic.gov.au website. Youare required to submit aresume and cover letter

Applications close 23 November 2022. www.transport.vic.gov.au

GP1 650486

MOVEMENT and SAFETYENGINEER

Ongoing Full Time Position VPS4 $90,067 -$102,192per annum plus superannuation

Work Location: Gippsland

The Movement and Safety Engineer willprovide sound road safety and traffic engineering advice to the community and internal and external stakeholders.

Atertiaryqualification in engineering and the ability to apply the principles and procedures of relevant Acts,Standards, Regulations, Codes and Guidelines relating to road safety,traffic engineering andplanning activities is essential.

HowtoApply

Please visit the careers.vic.gov.au website. Youare required to submit aresume and cover letter

Applications close 23 November 2022. www.transport.vic.gov.au

TRAINEE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST

Four-year traineeship

Transferrable skills $70,806 basesalaryinfirst year 4-day week

Areyou alogicalthinker with good diagnostic ability? Do you enjoy maths and solving technical problems?Ifyou areinterested in gaining skills and knowledge in the latest and developing technologies in electricity supply and power systems, this Traineeship opportunitycould be for you!

Based at LoyYang BPower Station, Victoria’snewest and most efficient coal-fired power station, you will workwith an experiencedand passionate team of people committed to helping you learn

While undertakingthis four-year traineeship you will completea Diploma of ESI –PowerSystems (UET50221). Youwillspend approximately10-15 hours per week studying online, completing live and interactive webinars, expert lectures, and virtual laboratories. The remainder of your timewillbespent obtaining practical experienceand developingyourskills on-the-job

Youwillbetrained to:

Use engineeringapplicationssoftware

Provide engineering solutions to problems in power circuits

Install, commission, and maintainnetwork protection systems, control systems and power communication equipment

Use engineering drawings, diagrams, schedules, standards, codes,and specifications

Work safely in the power industry

THE BEST BITS

No HECS-HELP debt –you will leave your4 yearswith aqualification, no debt, and readytoworkinanindustry that is eager for morequalifiedengineering technologists to

Wisdom Integrity Compassion Respect

Traralgon Junior School

Classroom Teacher

PermanentOngoing

Fulltime

Commencing January2023

If you areinterested pleaseforward acurrent resume and cover letterto hr@stpaulsags.vic.edu.au

Fora copy of the Position Descriptionplease refer to our website: www.stpaulsags.vic.edu.au

650594

1 6 4 9 8 5 7

Traralgon JuniorSchool Classroom Teacher

12 monthfixed term contract

Full-time

Commencing January 2023

If you areinterested pleaseforward acurrent resumeand cover letter to hr@stpaulsags.vic.edu.au

Fora copy of the PositionDescription please refer to our website: www.stpaulsags.vic.edu.au

Applicationsclose 5pmFriday18November 2022

Career Opportunity

We

areseeking applications from suitably qualified and experienced people for the following position at our Yallourn Power Station:

Forfurtherinformation on this opportunity and to apply visit: http://careers energyaustralia com au GP1649860

G

Positions Available Nurses (RN &EN) and Personal Care Attendants

Casual and Permanent Part Time Flexible Hours

Ashleigh House is committed to being an employer of choice. We do this by offering above award remuneration, flexible working arrangements, great professional development programs, employee support and opportunity to grow your career in Aged Care and Assisted Living.

If you are an empathetic, community minded person who is motivated to work with the elderly and vulnerable, then you may wish to consider acareer with Ashleigh House.

The successful candidate will be a reliable, passionate, hard-working person who works well in a team environment. Experience is preferred but not essential.

The successful candidate will require aclear NDIS worker screening check.

CORPORATE SERVICES ADMINISTATOR

Employing more than 40 local people, McMillans are amedium accounting, business advisory and financial planning firm based in Traralgon. They are 100% locally owned and operated, and work with clients across many industries, services and professions throughout Australia, though predominantly in Gippsland. They have built a great team and culture.

McMillans are currently looking for aCorporate Services Administrator.

This role would be perfect for an experienced administrator who is process driven, structured and enjoys ongoing learning.

This position can be either full time (with amonthly RDO) or part time (4 days) it is ongoing and salary will be negotiated with the successful applicant with consideration of experience and skills.

Any questions can be emailed to abbey@hrsorted.com.au

please do not contact McMillans

To apply for any of these roles please search for 'McMillans' via www.seek.com.au and apply including your resume and application letter, all roles close 23 November however, please apply as soon as possible as applications will be considered as received.

Casual Quarry Dump Truck and Excavator Operator

We are seeking casual operators for the Dump Truck and Excavator. Quarry experience in the above is preferred, but training can be provided. Must have:

●

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● Wage is Casual Award Wage Rate plus Superannuation

Applicants can apply by sending an Introductory email and Resume to hello@farnhamcourt.com.au or in person by delivering aresume to Farnham Court Motel Reception. Applications close Wednesday, 30 November 2022.

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BURKETT, Patricia Florence. 89 years old Passed away peacefully on Saturday, 5November at Dalkeith Gardens with her loving family by her side.

You had asmile for everyone you had a heart of gold, You left behind memories that we will always hold. Loved and adored by everyone.

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Forever in our hearts Our beautiful Mum, Even though our hearts are breaking Iknow you will be with us always.

Fly high withthe angels Yourlovingdaughter Helena and son-in-law Ashley XX.

Mum, sometimes Iwish you could come back but Idon't want you to suffer anymore. Iknow you are with me and Iwill always have you in my heart and treasured memories of you. Love Suzanne and Bob.

Nan, you really did have a "beautiful life". Thank you for your love, strength and guidance. Loving memories of you will forever fill our hearts. Kylie, Anthony, Iva, Henri and Seve XO.

Our Beautiful Nan/Nanny Burkett, Your smile warmed our hearts and you would always make us laugh. We will miss hearing your beautiful voice. Remembering you is easy we do it every day, missing you is the hardest part that will never go away.

Iknow you will be up there dancing in the sky. "Jiminy Crickets" Forever and always in our hearts Kristy, Scott, Zachary and Benjamin XXX.

DAWSON, Michael Bryan.

Born 13 December 1941.

Died 12 November 2022, in his 81st year. Loved husband of Julie. Loved father and fatherin-law of Cathryn (Cate) and Troy Griffiths and Sarah and Daniel Sutton.

Loved grandfather of Jesse Parkinson, Lily Griffiths, Emily, Hayley and Michael Sutton. Loved grandfatherin-law to Peter Parkinson. Great grandfather of Layla Parkinson.

DYER (Bennett), Edna Ruth. Passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family after ashort illness on 10 November 2022. Loved and loving wife of Jim (dec.) for 65 years. Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Judy and John, Keith, Janette and Boris (dec.), Trish and Mark. Special friend of Gary. Loved Nana to all her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Forever in our hearts

DYER (Bennett), Edna Ruth. 30/7/1930 -10/11/2022. Your love for your family knew no bounds. You will be forever missed but you are with Dad now and Heaven has another Angel. Love you forever Love you Mum, Jan and Keith.

GRAY, Robert George 'Bob'.

Went to sleep peacefully on 13/11/2022.

Aged 87 years Loved husband of Joy for 63 years.

Loved dad of Ian, Lisa and Tim. Father-in-law of Janice, Barry and Kylie.

Loved Pa to his grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Pe ace ful ly pass ed 13/11/2022. Much loved dad of Ian and Janice. Pa of Selena, Dean, Matt and Lisa. Pa Bob of Madeline, Vincent, Harry and Lenny. We're sure you're spinning astory wherever you are!

'What acharacter and storyteller'

Loved dad to Lisa and Barry. Loved Pa to Reece, Mel, Lucas, Abbey, Calvin and Morgan. Loved Pa Bob of little Sophie.

Will be sadly missed XX We'll never forget our adventures with you Pa. Reece, Lucas and Calvin XXX.

Much loved father of Tim and father-in-law of Kylie. Along life full of yarns and laughs.

Many treasured memories Gone fishing Love Tim and Kylie XX.

MacGIBBON, Joan.

PEARSON (nee Mildern), Mary Ina.

Born Yallourn on 14th September 1933. Aged 89 years. Passed away peacefully surround by her loving family at Yallourn North on Sunday, 6th November 2022.

Adored daughter of Horace and Alice (Ena) Mildern late of Yallourn North.

Loving wife of Paull (dec.). Loved mother of Mark and Sue, Brett, Lee and Jenny, Gaye and Shaun Loving Nan to Stephen and Jacqui (dec.), Gavin and Rose, Georgia, James, Ben and Liam. Caring Great and Big Nan to Sophie and Oliver.

Thank you for the grateful and caring support from LCHS Palliative care and Baptcare.

The garden was tended, the roses in bloom, On this sunny day God put his arms around you. It broke our hearts to lose you, But you didn't go alone, For part of us went with you, The day God called you home.

Funeral held MONDAY (14 November 2022).

Personals

You potter no more in the garden, You stroll no more down the path, But the years we shared together will live forever in our hearts.

God saw that you were weary, He did what He thought best and gently held you in His arms and said come with me and rest.

Loving mother of Allan and mother-in-law of Marg. Cherished Nan of Sarah and Cam.

Loved andremembered always X

My beautiful Nan /Great Nanny, We will miss you, love you and think of you always. Brenton, Sarah and baby Evelyn.

Nan, your humour, love and genuine empathy for all others will live on through each of us every day. We will miss you, always. Wacky Jacqui, Brae, Arlo and Estelle XOX.

DYER, Edna Ruth. 30/7/1930 -10/11/2022. In her 93rd year Beloved wife of James (dec.). Much loved mother to Judith, mother-in-law to Jan. Devoted to grandmother Deanna, Melanie and Amy and their partners. Loved greatgrandmother to Renee, Jye, Nate, Zak, Megan, Charlotte, Bronson and Logan. We will miss you every day. Reunited with Dad Loving daughter Judith Jasinski.

DYER, Edna Ruth. Mum, you were the heart of the family. Reunited with Dad, give him abig hug from us. Miss you so much Trish, Mark, Lee, Jordie, Emma, Mitch, Grace and baby bean.

Sincere sympathy to Dallas, Matthew, Bryce, Rhonda, Ray, Robert, Steven and families on the passing of Joan. A long time friend who will be sadly missed. R.I.P. Joan, we will always remember you. Dorothy, Ray and family.

MASLEN (nee Platschinda), Rosa Maria. Passed away peacefully at home with her family on 9November 2022.

Aged 78 years Dearly loved and loving wife of Wilson for 58 years. Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Gary and Leah, Leanne, Belinda and Darren.

Adored Nana to Sophie, Ben, James, Sebastian, Milla and Heath.

Now at Rest

MASLEN, Rosa. Loved sister-in-law, aunty and great aunty of Joy and Ken Beath and family. Rosa, you were one in amillion

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PETHYBRIDGE, Annette Joy. 8/2/1946 -4/11/2022. Mother to Richard, sister to Diane, Margaret, Rick and Robyn, aunt and great aunt to many nieces and nephews. Aborn and bred Gippsland native and amateur historian, she will be missed by her close community of family and friends. Rest in Peace now Annette, and enjoy that long awaited cuppa with Mum. Love from Marg, Ferdy, Chelsea, Kristy and Cameron and their families.

Deaths •

Passed away peacefully at Maryvale Private Hospital on 13 November 2022, with his family by his side.

Aged 99 years, two weeks before his 100th birthday Dearly loved and loving husband of Elaine (dec.) for 68 years. Loved and adored father and fatherin-law of Kerri and Malcolm, Joanne and Ian, Barry and Gwen. Devoted Pa to Jason and Marilen, Ben, Jacki, Beck, Jordan and Sarah, and Stephanie.

Adoring great-grandfather to Hallie, Elijah and Sophie.

Dad, our hearts are broken but we know you are at peace. No words can express how much we will miss you. Alifetime of wonderful memories will be treasured forever.

We will love you 'until the twelfth of never'

Sleep Peacefully

To hear your voice, to see you smile, to sit and talk to you for awhile, to be together in the same old way would be our greatest wish today.

You never failed to do your best your heart was true and tender, you simply lived for those you loved and those you loved remember.

Beloved mother of John (dec.) and mother-in-law of Diane. Cherished Nan of Matt and Corina, Lesley and Will. Adored great Nan of Alanah, Avani, Nataya and Ciane.

Forever in our hearts

You are someone special, someone good and true, you will never be forgotten. We thought the world of you. Leigh, Caroline, Jozlyn and Maggie XX.

DYER, Edna. Passed away peacefully on 10/11/2022. You never failed to do your best, Your heart was true and tender, You simply lived for those you loved, And those you loved remember. We will miss you so much our beautiful Nan. All our love from Deanna and Craig, Melanie and Brenden, Amy and Simon and families.

MASLEN, Rosa. The Committeeand members of Moe Race Club are deeply saddened by the passing of Rosa, wife of ex Committee man and Life Member Wilson. Our condolences to Wilson and family members.

MASLEN, Rosa.

We are all saddened at the loss of avery special lady. Deepest sympathy to Wilson and family Brad and Kathy Law.

THOMSON, Donald. President Colin Matthies and members of the Rotary Club of Morwell mourn the passing of long serving and highly respected former member Donald Thomson, who passed away on 31 October 2022. Don served the club and the community with great commitment for 51 years and was well liked for his friendliness and concern for others.

Our condolences to Shirley and his family.

SHERRIFFS, John (Jack). Passed away peacefully at Narracan Gardens Aged Care Newborough on 11 November 2022, in the presence of his loving daughter.

Aged 97 years

Dearly loved husband of Aileen (dec.).

Much loved father of Marian (Maz), Ian, and Ann (dec.).

Adored Pop of Sam, Kaylie, and Aaron.

Reunited with his loved ones

HIBBERT, Cyril. Service No. 3157804 Passed away 1/11/2022. The Committee and Members of the Latrobe Valley &District Sub Branch deeply regret the passing of our dear friend and member. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Hibbert family.

LANG, David. Passed away peacefully, at O'Mara House, Traralgon, on Saturday, 12 November 2022. Aged 87 years Loved and loving husband of Iris. Much loved father, grandfather and great grandfather. Reunited with his beloved Iris

McKENDRY, Dorothy Isabel. Passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, 12 November 2022.

Aged 97 years

Loved and loving wife of Bill (dec.). Loving and beloved mother of Alan, Keith and Ian, mother-in-law to Jenny and Fiona.

Grandmother of Andrew, Ben, Emily, Glenn and Holly. Grandmother in law to Claire, Lucy and Andrew.

Great Nana Dot to Angus, Olivia, Ted, Clementine, Violet, Patrick, Jack and Sophie.

Loving sister of Mervyn.

Mum is now at peace up on the hill with her mate, Bill

SPENCER, Agnus

Members of the Moe RSL Sub-Branch, deeply regret the passing of their esteemed Affiliate Member and friend, Agnes. We offer our sincere sympathy to her family.

LEST WE FORGET

STEWART (Grubb), Margaret Joan.

Sadly passed away on 6 November 2022.

Dearly loved and loving sister of Elaine. Loving aunty of Michelle and Peter, Karen and Scott, Tracey and Tony and their families.

Rest Peacefully

BREED, Allan Terence (Terry).

JAYCO Freedom '05, 15ft pop-top, model 14-45-1, a/c, burner cooktop, 3-way fridge, m/wave,

BECK, Mary.

Passed away peacefully at Royal Freemasons Aged Care Moe with loving family by her side on Sunday, 6November 2022.

Aged 89 years Loving Wife of Maurice for 66 years.

Loved mother and mother-in-law of Chris and Darlene,Ashley and Leanne, Russell and Jo.

Adored Gran to Kristy and Damien, Kellyand Andrew, Tim and Rianna, Nicholas and Carline, Kimberley and Matt, Ryan, and Alex.

Great Gran to Claire, Luke, Jesse, Torah, and Tatum. Always in our hearts

VANDERSTEEN, Irma Jean.

1/10/1931. Passed away peacefully 6/11/2022. Wonderful memories woven in gold, this is a picture we tenderly hold. Deep in our hearts and lots of love from your son Gary and daughter Michelle. Rest peacefully Mum XXX.

VANDERSTEEN, Irma Jean.

For Oma, Sweet is the sound of Oma's voice, warm is her way of sharing, gentle is her special touch, tender is her caring. The special pride that's felt for you as days and years unfold, makes Oma someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride and cherish with love.

From your grandchildren, Ian, Anthony, Taryn and Shane, Sean and Steph, and Georgia XXX.

VANDERSTEEN, Irma Jean.

Abeautiful life has come to an end, so many good times we will treasure. A place deep in our hearts. Love from your dearest friends. Love Ron, Mary Hawthorn and family XXX. Rest Peacefully

DYER.

The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation for Mrs Edna Ruth Dyer will be held at Latrobe Valley funeral services Chapel, 437A Princes Drive Morwell on FRIDAY (18 November 2022) at 1.30pm.

Edna's Service will be livestreamed, to view the livestream please visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and go to livestreaming.

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BURKETT.

The Funeral Service of Mrs Patricia Burkett will be held at Gippsland Memorial Park, Rose Chapel on THURSDAY (17 November 2022, commencing at 11am.

Following the service, light refreshments will be served at the Morwell Club, Helen St, Morwell.

Patricia's Service will also be livestreamed. To view the livestream, please visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and follow the prompts. Private Burial to follow.

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DAWSON.

The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation for Michael Bryan Dawson will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 437A Princes Drive Morwell, TUESDAY (22 November 2022) at 11am.

In lieu of flowers donations to Gippsland Cancer Care, Prostrate nurse's unit envelopes available at the service.

Michael's Service will be livestreamed, to view the livestream please visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and go to live streaming.

MASLEN.

The Funeral Service for Mrs Rosa Maslen will be held at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 34 Fowler Street Moe on THURSDAY (17 November 2022) at 11am.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Cancer Council would be appreciated, envelopes available at the Service.

Rosa's service will be livestreamed, to view the livestream visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and go to livestreaming.

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SHERRIFFS.

The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation for Mr John (Jack) Sherriffs will be held at St Kieran's Catholic Church, Lloyd Street Moe on TUESDAY (22 November 2022) at 1pm.

Jack's Service will be livestreamed, to view the livestream please visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and go to live streaming.

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STEWART.

The Funeral Service for Margaret (Joan) Stewart will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 260 Princes Hwy Traralgon WEDNESDAY (16 November 2022) at 11am.

Joan's Service will also be livestreamed. To view the livestream please visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and go to livestreaming.

WALTERS, Ian John.

Passed away peacefully with his wife by his side, at Latrobe Regional Hospital, Traralgon on Saturday, 5November 2022.

Aged 72 years Loved husband of Judith. Adored father and much respected father-in-law of Ian and Destiny, Kelly and Scott, Shorne and Rose, Tammy and Adam, Racheal and Mal and Daniel.

Treasured Pop to his 20 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.

You were someone special, someone good and true, You will never be forgotten, we thought the world of you.

GRAY.

The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation of Robert "Bob" Gray will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 6Ollerton Ave, Moe on FRIDAY (18 November 2022) commencing at 1.30pm.

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BREED.

ACelebration of Life and Committal for Cremation for Mr Allan Terance "Terry" Breed will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 260 Princes Hwy, Traralgon on FRIDAY (18 November 2022) commencing at 11am.

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McKENDRY.

The Graveside Funeral Service for Mrs Dorothy Isabel McKendry will be held at the Moe Memorial Park Cemetery, Cemetery Road Moe on MONDAY (21 November 2022) at 2pm.

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LANG.

The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation for Mr David Lang will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 260 Princes Highway, Traralgon on MONDAY (28 November 2022) commencing at 11am.

In lieu of flowers, donations to Fight Parkinsons would be appreciated, envelopes available at the service.

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BECK.

The Funeral Service for Mrs Mary Beck will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 6Ollerton Avenue Moe on THURSDAY (17 November 2022) commencing at 11am.

The Funeral will leave at the conclusion of the service for the Moe Cemetery

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WALTERS. The Funeral of Mr Ian John Walters will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 437A Princes Drive, Morwell on FRIDAY (18 November 2022) commencing at 10.30am. At the conclusion of the Service the Funeral will leave for the Traralgon Cemetery, Gippsland Memorial Park.

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PUCKRIDGE, Peter John. Late of Charters Towers. Formerly of Newborough, Victoria. All relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend aGraveside Funeral Service for Peter on THURSDAY (17 November 2022) at the Lynd Highway, Charters Towers commencing at 10am. In the Care of Charters Towers Funerals 36 Hodgkinson St Charters Towers Qld 4820 Ph: 07 4787 7530

In Memoriam •

PATTERSON, Mark. 7/12/1972 -15/11/1987. Your life was ablessing, your memory atreasure.

Thinking ofyou always Love Mum, Dad and family.

Racing again at Moe this Friday

HORSERACING

MOE

The track was initially rated aSoft 6, upgraded to aSoft 5after the first race.

Local trainer Mick Templeton high lighted the meeting, winning Race 5, while high-profile trainer Peter Moody secured adouble.

The Race 1LadbrokeIt! Maiden Plate over 2050 metres saw Gottabesavvyedge out Hollerween by anose.

The New Zealandgelding stretched on the outsidebyliterally apimple to win.

In Race 2, the Able Mechanical 3YO Maiden Plate (1200m), Cold One did it easy, winning by nearly two lengths. Moody got his first win of the day in the Race3CaptainZap 4YO+ Maiden Plate (1200m), as Life Lessons got home by alength.

This was followed by Mornington trainer John McArdle winning Race 4, the Colli’s Hair Design Maiden Plate (1600m). Muzukashii beat a good field that saw four horses all within alength of each other as the winner crossed.

Templeton won the Race 5RMBL Investments Rising Stars BM58 Handicap (1600m) in athriller.

His six-year-old mare StayA While jumped well andsettled nicely to sit second at the 800 metreand 400m mark.

Stay AWhile was in asprint to the finish with Alphaville for most of the straight, but jockey Tayla Childs was able to see the local to victory.

“The choice to either leave or sit off was justdepending on how she would

go throughout the run,” Childs told Racing.com postrace.

“Sheracedreallykeenly butshe was happy just sitting off that one, we were going at agood clip but she was just so tough in the end.

“Mick told me she’s afighter and she’ll just keep going to the line.”

StayA While showed trademark Latrobe Valley tenacity, defying its $14.00 starting pricetobeat the favourite.

Isolating won the Race6Ladbrokes Punter Assist BM58 Handicap (1000m), winning by 1.5 lengths.

Race 7, the S&S Equipment Hire BM58 Handicap (1000m)was won by Vegas Diva, before Moody got his second win in the Race 8Ladbrokes MatesMode0-64 Handicap(1200m).

The race sawacracking field get to the line with less than alength separating the top four finishers.

Coincidently, Moody also trained the horsethatran second, The Big Freeze.

Mornington Mask rounded out the meetingbywinning the Race 9Xmas PartyRaceday9th Dec- Shannon Noll Live BM58 Handicap (2050m).

In casethe naming of the race wasn’t clear enough -Shannon Nolliscoming to Moe Racing Club on December 9. Without stating the obvious -that is going to be huge.

Before that however, there is more racing to be had at Moe, with another meeting on this Friday.

Moe Racing Clubhas certainly been busy, with no less than three meetings in five weeks since Moe Cup Day.

As Billy Lawry would say “it’s all happening”.

Staying with racing, don’t forget the Traralgon Cup is on Sunday, November27atLatrobeValley Racing Club.

MARK RIDDLE

Consultant DAVID HASTIE General Manager ALLAN WORTHY Funeral Consultant

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By LIAM DURKIN

Racing Club hosted anine-card meeting on Monday, November 7.

That’s howit’sdone: Tayla Childs returns to the mounting yard on board Stay AWhile afterwinning the Race 5BM58 Handicap at Moe photographs scottbarbour/racingphotos

Localwinner: Stay AWhile, trained by Trafalgar’s MickTempleton, wins at Moe on Monday,November 7.

Harriers triathletes pack apunch

By BARRYHIGGINS

ONCE again, the Traralgon Harriers have had a busy fortnight.

Talented Harrier Narelle Crozier recently achieved outstanding results in two ultra-distance events across two weekends that highlighted her ability as atriathlete.

MollyIrvine is abouttotakeonanextreme challengeinaninternationaltriathlon event. Other members ran in the Great SouthernEndurance Run (GSER) last weekend.

The Alpine Quest and the ‘Warrny’

CROZIER, an Iron Woman triathlete and triple Traralgon Marathon winner, last weekend completed the 192-kilometre Alpine Quest’ from Omeo. She and her team navigated, trekked, mountain biked, kayaked and rafted along the Great Dividing Range with 5700m of elevation in 37 hours.

The previous weekend, Crozier completed the ‘Dirty Warrny’, a246km off-road bike race from Geelong to Warrnambool.

Named in respect of the classicroadrace, the ‘Warrny’, by contrast, follows mainlyunsealedtrails through the Otway Ranges and open hillycountry with atotal elevation of 3000 metres.

With an elite field competing, Crozier was outright sixth woman finisher in 11 hours 57 minutes, the same elapsedtimeasher fellow Latrobe Valley triathletes Darren Spiteri and Adrian Harper. Four times Tour Down Under winner and 2013 Tourde France teammember, Simon Gerrans, finished in aslightly quicker time.

WorldTriathlon Championships

NEXT week, MollyIrvine will competeagainst international representatives from around the world in the World Triathlon Age-Group Championships in Abu Dhabi.

Against athletes from 10 other countries,she will be alongside her fellow Australian team member Lucy Ruffy in the 25-29 age group.

The Super Sprintevent, a400mswim,10km bike ride and 2.5km run, seems short but is an extremely high-intensity contest.

Irvine said:“Iamlooking forward to it, although heat may be an issue with so few hot days here to acclimatise. But Ihave been doing spin-bike work at the gym with the heat cranked up to 25-30 degrees Hopefully the swim will keep me cool for the bike leg, and then Iwill just ‘tough it out’ for the run”.

Great SouthernEndurance Run

MOUNTAIN running is becoming increasingly popular.

Lastweekend, Harriers and friends ran the GSER mountain events from Harrietville and return.

They enjoyed the scenic trails through the Alpine National Park, reaching the summit of Mt Feathertop and other alpine peaks, with anumber of climbs approaching 2000 metres.

Josh Godden, Rebecca Binding,Catherine

Leonard and Maree Graham tackled the 28km clockwise circuit that summited Mt Feathertop.

CoreyMilner and two-time Traralgon Marathon winnerKatherine Macmillan tookonthe 100 mile (160km) course that began along the 28km circuit

It then went south-east, climbing Mt St Bernard and Mt Selwyn before turning at the Viking and retracingthe same mountainousroute back home, with atotal of more than 10km ascent.

The elapsed times required to finish each eventup and down the high mountainstell how demanding the courses are.

Railway ReservoirRes Run

AT the Railway Reservoir Reserve last Thursday, the local swans mingled sociably with the Harriers at thestart of the three-lap course around the lake.

Adrink station, kindly arranged by the weekly volunteers, provided water and acut up fruit -and lollies!

The shady environs of the lake, coupled with a slight breeze, tempered the heat and allowedsome speedy times.

Zack Beasley,Ian Cornthwaite and Miles Verschuur raced alongsideeach other for two laps before Beasley edged cleartofinish justahead of Cornthwaite, with Verschuur andGlennGraham slightlyadrift

Junior Dempsey Podmore ran another excellent time to finish in thetop five Quickestwomen were Yani Cornthwaite, Karen Graham and Liz Kenney,with Angeline Snell and Lucy Magaldi rounding out the top five women finishers.

This week’s Harriers event, (November 17), is the Barry and Carol Summersgill Championship at Edward Hunter Reserve off Coalville Rd, Moe, with 3km, 6km and 12km distances.

Traralgon drivers making waves

MOTORSPORT

TRARLAGON motorsport

recently won the national

Concludingthe season, Caruso claimed a perfect weekendwith pole position in qualifying, three race wins from three races, and also broke the track record for sports sedans.

Fellow rev-head Elly Morrow has also made waves this year.

The Traralgonlocal scored aGold Coast cameo in the form of an S5000 debut in October.

Morrow, who races for Brad Jones Racing, tradedher Commodore for asingle-seater competition at the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500.

The 23-year-old became the first female Super2 driverinsix yearstotackleMount Panorama.

Results forThursday10November,6 km Railway Reserve Run: ZackBeasley23.25, Ian Cornthwaite 23.50, Miles Verschuur 24.17, GlennGraham 24.22, DempseyPodmore25.34, Owen Notting 26.50, Darrel Cross 27.20, Yani Cornthwaite27.24, Andrew Greenhill 27.33, Chris VanUnen 27.44, SteveRenehan 28.00, Shane Gavin 28.01, Clinton Jolly28.38, JayMcGown 28.41, Andrew Panayiotou 28.50, Jack Marino 29.14, GeoffFrancis 30.10, Jason Odlum 30.15, Jake Szkwarek 30.45, NickTalerico 31.10, KarenGraham 31.16, Michael Szkwarek 31.19, Stephen McLeod 31.32, GaryFox 32.15, Phill Mayer32.27,DaveMann 32.27,Giuseppe Marino 32.52, David Hood 33.04, Liz Kenney33.20, Angelo Gaudiano 33.43, Andrew Broberg33.55, Angeline Snell 34.06, Errol Poole 34.38, LucyMagaldi 34.54, Chris Francis 35.25, Jason Irvine 35.51, ClaireMacumber 36.13, Maree Graham 36.34, Catherine Leonard36.41, Alysha Duncan 37.44, Danelle Wright 37.44, Andrew Legge 38.12, Michelle Sawyer 38.26, Tania Whitehead 38.39, KayeLivingstone 39.58, Adam VanBaalen 40.01, Alfie Warner 41.18, MarkFairbairn42.50, Sue Stranger 44.00, Ann Bomers46.21, Maltilda Lappin 47.26, Desmond Dalton 58.00, EilyDalton 58.00, BarryHiggins 60.00, Lea Francis 63.09, Lynda Jones 64.00, Belinda Heafield 64.00, KathyQuinn 67.12, Michelle Colwell 67.12.

Selected results, Great SouthernEndurance Run. 28km: Josh Godden 3hr 18min 32sec (outright 5th), Catherine Leonard6:44:45, Catherine McKenna 6:57:50, Dave Frendo 6:57:50, Rebecca Binding 7:31:37,Maree Graham 7:31:37.56km. BrettRollinson 9:03:27,Tony Richards 14:04:24. 50 miles.SallyTheobald 18:33:52. 100 miles. Katherine Macmillan 44:41: 45 (2 F), CoreyMilner 45:08:06.

Best

Socialtennis on in Morwell

TENNIS

MORWELL

Modified games to suit all playing abilities and fitness levels encourage great fun in a positive environment.

Social tennis would suit shift workers, those retired or semi-retired, new players, or those looking to return to the court.

For more information, phone Naomi Brittain on 0405 739 819.

Morwell Tennis Club is located in Ronald Reserve, off Vary St.

Worldstage: Traralgon Harrier andLatrobe ValleytriathleteMollyIrvine is again in the Australian team, thistimeatthe WorldTriathlon Age-group ChampionshipsinAbu Dhabi

ace Jordan Caruso

sports sedans Australian title at Sandown Raceway.

Vroom vroom: Traralgon’s Jordan Caruso celebrates his nationalmotorsportsuccess photograph supplied

Tennis Club is hosting social tennis on Monday and Fridays from 9am to 12pm.

Champion: NarelleCrozier,seenonthe way to winning the third of her ‘three-peat’ Traralgon Marathons,did twoadventureraces across two weekends photographs supplied

foot forward: Tanjil South resident and Traralgon Harrier MareeGrahamisingoodform aftercompleting anumber of trailand mountain runs in recent weeks

Valley to host VicChampionships

TABLE TENNIS

LATROBE City is set to become the home oftable tennis in Victoria, with two of the biggest events on the annual table tennis calendar to be hosted in Gippsland for the next eight years.

The Victorian CountryChampionshipsand Victorian OpenVeterans Championshipswill be held at the Gippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium (GRISS)inTraralgonfrom 2023 to 2030 as part of anew partnership between Table Tennis Victoria (TTV), Latrobe City Council and Destination Gippsland.

In an exciting move forregional table tennis, theeight-year deal willsee the state-of the-art GRISS facility add 60 new table tennis tables,court barriers and umpires’ chairs to host the events during April and June each year.

The two annual competitionswillresult in about 500 table tennis competitors and their families visitingthe regioneach year to stimulate the local tourism economy and create long-lastingconnections with local businesses.

The $19 million redevelopment and expansion of GRISS was completed in 2020, with the venue featuring nineindoorcourts,ashowcourt with spectatorseating,training rooms and acafe allowing the facility to cater to arange of indoor sports.

GRISS is aproven event space, with aproud history of hosting large regional, national and international indoor sporting championships.

With well-established connections with basketball and netball, TTV is excited to addtabletennisinto the annual rotation of events.

TTVchief executive Gen Dohrmann is thrilled about the partnership and to be bringing the Country Championships back to Regional Victoria as well as the Victorian Open Veterans tournament.

“To be able to have anewly refurbished stadium with brand new equipment capable of hosting marquee table tennis events is fantastic,” Dohrmann said.

“The commitment from the LatrobeCityCouncil and Destination Gippsland to bring these events to Traralgon means we can spread high leveltable tennis further across Victoria.”

Latrobe City Mayor Kellie O’Callaghan welcomed the opportunity to be the regional home of table

tennis in Victoria.

“Thislong-term partnership will be afantastic addition to Latrobe City’s sporting calendar, building the profile of the sport within the Gippsland region and creatingnew opportunities for increased participation,” she said.

The first event to be held as part of the agreement will be the 2023 VictorianOpen Veterans Championships, held in conjunction with the Victorian Open Junior and Senior Championships, on April 15-16 2023.

Making use of housing after2026Com Games

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VICTORIAN Council of Social Service (VCOSS) has highlighted anew report that is urging immediateactiontoprevent aspike in regional rents, a deterioration in housing affordability and increased homelessness ahead of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

The report hasbeen produced by theeightmemberVictorian Housing Peaks Alliance, of which VCOSS is amember.

The Alliance is proposing a raft of pre-emptive measures, including action to:  Bolster crisis accommodation;

Curb regional rent increases, and;  Stop arush of rentals being listed on Airbnb instead.

It’s also urging the state government to vow not to “moveon” visible homelessness from around Games sites, and to earmark at least 30 per cent of athletes’ villages to become social housing after the Games.

VCOSS chief executive Emma King said that big sporting events have been known to drive up rents, make housing less affordable and exacerbate homelessness.

“The good news is the Victorian Commonwealth Games are still years away. Victoria has time to sidestep aseries of damaging unintended consequences in the leadup to the Commonwealth Games,” she said.

“With carefulplanning, Victoria can host a world-best Games without making homelessness and housing affordability worse, and leave apositive andenduringGames legacy. Housing is not agame. As Victoria plans new and upgraded Games infrastructure, housing must be front of mind. “Victoria needs to design asystem of rent controls

for regional areas and create more short-term crisis housing to protect regional communitiesbeforeand during the Games. At least athird of the housing build for athletes should be converted into social housing down the track.

“If we get this right, Victoria hosts awonderful Games, localcommunities are protected andwe end up with more social housing.

“But if we get it wrong, Victoria is looking at an utterly avoidable human catastrophe.”

ATHLETICS

GIPPSLAND ATHLETICS CLUB

Results forround five of thetrack and field season on Tuesday, November 8.

200M.Women: U/14–Z Dalton 29.98 Men: U/14–J VanBaalen 34.93; U/20 -A Saltmarsh-Milne 26.95; Open –BCaffrey 28.54; Masters-J Fernando 27.94, SDalton 36.30.

HIGH JUMP (water interrupted).Women: U/18–I Georgeson 1.30; Open –V Fuller NJ Men: U/16–O VanBaalen 1.30; Masters –S VanBaalen 1.25, JFernando 1.20.

DISCUS.Women: U/14–Z Dalton 11.27; U/18–I Georgeson 12.93; Open –V Fuller 17.72; Masters–F Saltmarsh14.08 Men: U/14–J VanBaalen 19.38; U/16–O Van Baalen 22.01; U/20 -A Saltmarsh-Milne 25.82; Open –S Carstairs38.87,CNewman 26.54, BCaffrey 19.13; Masters–S Van Baalen 31.72, SDalton 19.79, JFernando 17.36.

1500M.Women: U/14–Z Dalton 6:14.51 Men: U/14–J VanBaalen 6:47.21; BCaffrey 6:09.97; Masters–JFernando 5:57.70, S Dalton 8:39.03.

HAMMER.Women: U/18–I Georgeson 12.59; Open –V Fuller 16.19; Masters–F Saltmarsh17.00 Men: U/14–J VanBaalen 18.00; U/20 -A Saltmarsh-Milne 23.73; Open –S Casrstairs38.65, CNewman 38.56; Masters–S VanBaalen 39.25.

100M.Women: U/14–Z Dalton 14.07; U/18 –IGeorgeson 17.08Men: U/14–J Van Baalen 17.16; U/16–O VanBaalen 14.56; U/20 -A Saltmarsh-Milne 12.48; Masters–J Fernando 12.85.

SHOTPUT.Women: Open –V Fuller 6.06; Masters–F Saltmarsh5.92 Men: U/20 -A Saltmarsh-Milne 8.86; Open –SCarstairs 14.20, CNewman11.12;Masters–S Van Baalen 11.08, JFernando 5.94.

MIRBOONORTH

Agrade: WReynolds (18) 38pts.B grade: SBeitz (21) 37pts.DTL: JSmeriglio 36; N Rutledge,TTraill34; NBaker 33. NTP: D Taylor 6th, WReynolds 16th. Birdies: 4th N Rutledge,RGourlay; 6th PWoodall.

Stroke–championship, roundtwo, Saturday, November 12

Agrade: GRenwick(11)72. Bgrade: JSmeriglio (17) 69. Cgrade: RHoskin (30) 72. DTL: JRobbins 72; MHeiberg, S Hill-Smith 73; JMcFarlane,RRobbins, GShandley, CHams 74.NTP: 4th N Rutledge,6th TBradshaw, 13th SEvison, 16th JMcFarlane.Birdies: 4th DWoodall, WReynolds NRutledge,A Sparks; 6th G Renwick, TBradshaw, RMatthews; 13th D Woodall, RMatthews MOE

Twilight stableford,Wednesday,November 9.

Winners: CWeir (15) 20,P Young (27) 17

Birdies: 4th DStewart; 8th LWeir,C Weir; 14th TDonnison, SHibbs; 18th APickard Women’sstablefordninehole, Wednesday, November 9.

Overall winners: LWeaver(42) 13 Runners-up: JLee (51) 12 Stroke,Wednesday, November 9. Winners: KMiddlemiss (14) 81, HStanlake (27) 82. Runners-up: RFitzpatrick82, A Griggs 83, KSavige 85. NTP: 4th LBates, 14th AGriggs.Birdies: JBeath, LBates 4th; RFitzpatrick6th. Target hole: CO’Reilly. Star medal winner:K Middlemiss Open medley stableford,Thursday, November 10

Overall winners: ADevent (9)38, RDyt (15) 39, GLear (28) 35 on c/b.Runners-up: TJohnson, RMcDonald, JHarber 37 on c/b; SHall, LWeir,RKing36onc/b; JPisa, LStansbury, AMcDonald,V Powell, PCoffin 35 on c/b; MScammell 34 on c/b.NTP: 4th NWebb, 8th CBackman, 14th LWhite. Birdies: ADevent 14th Women’sstableford, Saturday, November 12

Winner: HStanlake(27) 32. Men’sstrokeclub championships, Saturday, November 12

Overall winners: LVeeman (medal) (11) 71, LVeeman (11) 71, AColvin (15) 72, B Young (31) 72 on c/b.Runners-up: VPowell 72; PSpiteri73; SStephens,T Donnison, ADevent 74 on c/b; RAllen, TWolski, P Stephens,GBrien 75 on c/b; RWhite, C Dunstan, SNyko76on c/b.NTP:4th N Taylor,8th VPowell, 14th AGauci. Gross winner:P Brown76. Birdies: VPowell, P Richmond 8th; ABassman, PBrown 14th

TRAFALGAR

Openmen’s&women’sstableford, Friday, November 11

Winner: RAnderson 41pts.Runner-up:

GRoberts 40pts.DTL:M Scammell 39, RMortimer 38, LSnowball 37,BBaldry 35. Birdies: 2nd PHobson; 5th FHyett,P Robertson; 11th WHiriaki.

Stableford, Saturday, November 12

Agrade: GJansen 40pts.B grade: B McKenzie 41pts.DTL:G Doolan, JMarshall, MLewis,T Gray,DSheehan 39; BAplin, RDyke, RSaunders38; RBorg37on c/b.NTP:2nd PMoss,5th RDyke, 11th T Cross, 13th MLewis,15th JGray.

TRAFALGAR WOMEN

Stableford,Wednesday, December 9. winner: KMacGregor (27) 37pts Runner-up: ABayley(24) 36pts.Nine hole winner:A Owen 19.Runner-up: BWallace DTL: CDeppeler,J Evison. NTP: 5th J Tickell, 11th BKeily.

TRAFALGAR SENIORS

Stableford,Tuesday, November 8.

Winner: MPugliese 18 on c/b.Runner-up: NMether 18 DTL: PFogarty 16,G Grant15, SLawrence 15 NTP: IGrant. Bradman’s:N Fordham.

Strokemonthly medal (51 players), Thursday, November 10 Women’s winner: AOwen31. Runner-up: JGriffin 33. DTL: KMacGregor,S De Vries 34. NTP: CDeppeler.Scratch winner: JTickell. Bradman’s:S Roberts.Men’s winner:T Davie 29 on c/b.Runner-up: J Kerr 29. DTL: JDoderico 33; RPyke, G Grant, KOwen34; UTomski, CGriffin 35. NTP: GHarris.Scratch winner:T Shearer Bradman’s:B Barnes

TRARALGON Men’sstableford-white tees (82 players),

22.5 Drouin Gold 15 4 10 136.1120.5 Trafalgar 24 1 21 67.69 12.5 Moe Blue 151 40 100.56 11.5 Drouin Maroon 150 41 58.82 8

Coming to you: Destination Gippsland chief executive TerryRobinson, TraralgonTable Tennis association president Mark Strini, Latrobe City mayor Kellie O’Callaghan, TableTennis Victoria chief executiveGen Dohrmann, Events Gippslandproject managerDavid Elder andSportsMarketing Australia Partnerships manager Dave Szumowski welcoming the announcement. photograph supplied

Traf winners in midweek pennant

BOWLS MIDWEEK PENNANT

By MICHAEL HOLROYD

DIVISION 1

TRAFALGAR travelled to Warragul and came home with agood win. Heather Taylor and her rink of Pat Tatterson, Peter Watson and Darren Kane had a27–16win over Janette Gallasch and her rink of Matt Draisma, Margaret Ratcliffe and Peter Gallasch. Sue Robinson and her rink of Carolyn Fox, Anthony Mitchinson and Paul Dawson had a25– 10 win over Pat Hammond and her rink of John Vickerman, Alison Mattthews and Graeme Davis. Kerri Currie and her rink of Freda Lay, David Ferguson and Robert Renn salvaged two points for the home team with a16– 12 win over ShirleyMelsen and her rinkofCol Carmichael, Helen Robertson and Ken Capper winning.

 Trafalgar 14 –64defeated Warragul 2- 42

TRARALGONtravelled to Morwell Club and narrowly retained top place on the ladder with a thrilling two-shot victory. Kathy Smiles and her rink of Matt Ogilvie,Chris Thomas and Rosie Lorenz had a22–16win over Beryl Noblett and her rink of Iyoko Yoshimura, Roger Rejmer and Sue Karleusa. Pat Trewin and her rink of Elaine Swan, Ron Baker and Garry Trewin defeated Jan Karleusa and her rink of Dashaa Martin, Bernie Marinoand Gail Rejmer 21 -12. Tess Borgand her rink of Leanne Broadbent, Bernie Kirkup and Tara Harle gainedtwo points for the visitors with a 25 –12win over Paddy Francis and her rink of Di Richards, Barry Fernance and Bill Francis, leaving Morwell Club two shots short of awin after losing to Newborough by three shots last round..

 Traralgon 14 –55defeated Morwell Club 2–53

DROUIN travelledtoTraralgonRSL and came home with full points. Maureen Leighton and her rink of Elaine and Brian Thorpe together with John Leighton defeated Elaine Muir and her rink of Titch Hore, Julie Sutcliffe and Ron Osler 24 –16.

Denise Hamiltonand her rink of Ron Westrup, Jan Aubrey and Dennis Throup had a20–19win over Marianne Hodson and her rink of Adriana Eaton,GordonBayley andDave Hodson. Sheryl Atkinson and her rink of Mary and Les Firth, together with Mark Atkinson, completed the sweep with a37–7 win over Margaret Gibbins and her rink of MargaretMorley, Lyn Mackintosh and Jeff Blytheman  Drouin 16 –81defeated Traralgon RSL 0-42

KERRY Wright and her rink of Bill Tumney, Irene Biggs and KevinPigdon had a26–15win over HeatherMooney and her rink of Peter Policha, Fran Clark and Rod Lewis. Judy Tumney and her rink of Helen Cook,Bob Skinnerand Keith Gadsby had a24–12win over JoanGoldieand her rink of Bob Goldie, Ed Whelan and Julie Jackson. Jo-AnneMichaels and her rink of Phil Marston, Mary Whelan and Nosha Michaels rescued two pointsfor Newborough with a28–22win over Rita Reddiex and her rink of Ross Harford, Shirley Skinnerand David Cook.  Morwell 14 –72defeated Newborough 2–55

DIVISION 2

MORWELL Club (2) travelled to Traralgon (2), with the home club winning all three rinks. Lyn Moffat and her rink of Carolyn Roscholler, James Overdyk and Ian Bloomfield had a26–15win over Sandy Sinnott. May Cross and her rink of Frank Stake, JanineBarlingand Graham Crossdefeated Shirley Kolcze 24 –9.Barbara Scott and her rink of Barbara Baker, Bill Bishop and Greg Swan had a27–12win over Betty Burridge.

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Traralgon 16 –77defeated Morwell Club (2) 0–36

NEERIM Districttravelled to Newborough (2) and thehome team won all rinks, with Ann-Mary Ryan and her rink of Ruth Verhagen, Michael Weatherall and Graham Cocks defeating Pat Fraser-Aurisch 29 –8.Carmel Gossand herrinkofGlenys Perkins, Jenny Cocks and Robbert Cookwon 25 –12against Kay Cousins, and to complete the sweep, Bev Luck and her rink of John Arnold, Adrienne Birchall and IainPreston had a26–13win overKarren Sheers.

 Newborough (2) 16 –80defeated Neerim District 0– 33

DROUIN (2)welcomed Newborough(2) andmanaged aone-shot victory, withIreneDawson and her rink of Greme Aubrey, MargaretRhodes and Necip Akarsu defeating Joy Cadby 21 –8.Mary Andrews and her rink of Lyn Rippon, Rudy Kerkvliet and David Tayles had a23–22win overDianne Bertoli. For the visitors, Heather Disisto and her rinkof Lyn Madden, SteveCunninghamand Alan Luck had aa 21 –19win over Margaret Owens

 Drouin (2) 14 –63defeated Newborough (3) 2-51

MOE welcomedWarragul(2) and forthe home team, Lorraine Horton and her rink of Wim Detering, Ros Martin and Steve pallot had a27–14 win over Glynis Mitchell.Val Griffithsand her rink of Stan Myers, Len Middling and RobynDodd had a27–10win over Margaret Keefe. For the visitors, Gaye Renn and her rink of Roy Hammond, May Baldwin and Ian Belling had a25–9win over Val Rodgers to give the visitors two pointstotakehome.

 Moe 14 –63defeated Warragul (2) 2- 49

DIVISION 3

MORWELL (3) welcomed Yarragon and for the home team, Palma McNeill and her rink of Alex Monroe, Denise Pigdon and Jan Whelan had a30 –13win overKaye McLaren,and GlendThompson had a27– 14 win over Marion Chetland. For the visitors, Margaret Arnold had a18–16win over Jenny Duncan to bring home two points for the visitors.

 Morwell (3) 14 –73defeated Yarragon 2-45

GARFIELD welcomed Traralgon (3) and for the home team, Maureen Lamport and her rinkof Jan Johnson, Gerald Wakefield and Bob Lamport had a27–13win overMuriel Johnson. Helene Newton defeated Shirley Richardson 28 –20and to complete the sweep, Gwen Fabris defeated Fay Marsh 17 –15.

 Garfield 16 –72defeated Traralgon (3) 0- 48

YINNAR welcomed Morwell (2) and the home teamwon allrinks, with Meredith Kennon and her rink of Kerryn Nicholson, Max Aumann and Tim RochedefeatingJan Moody 25 –10. Jennie Harris defeated Letty Mizzi 19 –13and Hilarie Anstey defeated Rebecca Matheson 23 –16to complete the sweep.

 Yinnar 16 –67defeated Morwell (2) 0-39

History-making day at Churchill

BOWLS

AGRANDFATHERSdream came true at Churchill Bowling Club last weekend.

Barry Flanigan, who has been bowling for around 25 years, came to Churchill Bowls Club at the start of this season so that he could play with his son Craig.

Craighad told his dad that he was always going to play bowls with his hometown club, as he had with all his sporting pursuits.

Barry and Craig have playedinthe same team for the first four games of this season.

On Saturday, Craig’s 21-year-old son Bailey playing only his second game of lawn bowls, and wasselected to playinthe same team as his father and grandfather.

Barry was elated and the smile hasn’t left his face since selection day.

While it made for agreat story, unfortunately, it wasn’t their day on the green, and the Flanigan trio went down to Traralgon.

Churchill Bowling Clubisstill looking for new members, and would welcome anyone who is interested in joining.

The Flanigans have shown thatlawn bowls is not just asport for old people, but is truly a family game.

Those interestedinfindingout morecan phone Churchill Bowling Club secretary Dianne Thomas on 0407 182 967.

Churchill Bowling Club is located within Gaskin Park.

DROUIN (3) travelled to Trafalgar (2) with the visi tors winning all three rinks. Maria Wans and her rink of Marie McDonald, Alex Miller and Andrew Blaby had a22–13win overLyn Sephton. Maureen McMillan defeated Joanna Reekie 24 –17and Dini Hone defeated Margaret Moss 22 –19.

 Drouin (3) 16 –68defeated Trafalgar (2) 0-49

DIVISION 4

CHURCHILL 8–38defeated Newborough (4) 2–34, Traralgon RSL (2) 9-46defeated Trafalgar (3) 1–35, Yallourn North 10 –49defeated Warragul (3) 0–25, Morwell Club (3) 8–45defeated Moe (3) 2–36, Drouin(4) 8–39defeated Traralgon (4) 2– 35, Yinnar 10 –48defeated Moe (2) 0–38.

Three generations: Craig,Barry andBaileyFlanigan all playedinthe same team forChurchill Bowling Club on Saturday photograph supplied

Newborough claims derby honours

BOWLS SATURDAYPENNANT

By MICHAEL HOLROYD

ROUND 5ofSaturdaypennant was playedinlovely warm weather, allowing some excellent bowls to be played. There was another upset in Division 1whenWarraguldefeated Trafalgar, who were fresh from awin over Traralgon in the last round.

DIVISION 1

WARRAGUL welcomed Trafalagarand forthe home team Paul Simmons and his rink of Terry Sullivan, David Alderman and Jim Moyle won 20 –17over Ian Miles and his rink of Peter Jonas, Phil Wynd and Paul Dawson. Graeme Davis and hisrinkofDes Stephens, Ian Belling and David Ferguson had a29–17win over Wil McIlwain and his rink of Jim Wilson, Bruce Giles and Darren Kane. For the visitors, Tim Fraser and his rink of Danny Bryant, Tim Anderson and Ken Capper had a26–18win over David Smith and his rinkofJohn Vickerman,GabrielleDraismaand Robert Renn.Matt Schreyer and his rink of Col Carmichael, Wayne Hurst and Steve Lodge had a 20 –17win overJanette Gallasch and her teamof Matt Draisma, Linda McCoy and Peter Gallasch.  Warragul 14 –84defeated Trafalgar 4- 80 TRARALGON welcomed Drouin as they strove to break atwo-game losing streak and leave Drouin havingsuccessivelosses.MickCoram and his travelling rink of Angela and Brenton Hackett together with Shane O’Loughlin defeated Dale Hendrick and his rink of Bruce Andrews, Graeme Aubrey and Geoff Bayley 29 –14. James Scullin and his rink of Nick Turnbull, Pat Trewin and Chris Ward defeated Samantha Atkinson and her rink of Peter Wallace, Steve Barr and Toby Wallace 39 –10. Vincent McIlwain and his rink of Kirsty Van den Hoff, Ron Sherlock and Matt Eccles had a31–10win over Sheryl Atkinson and her rink of Maureen Leighton, Jan Aubrey and Les Firth. Mark Atkinson and his rink of David McIlfatrick, John Leighton and Mick Fleming salvaged apoint for Drouin when they drew 19 –19with Michael Yacoub and his rink of Matt Ogilvie, Ian Hilsley and Ian Kirkup.

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Traralgon 17 –118 defeated Drouin 1– 53

NEWBOROUGH travelled to Moe and came home withfull points.AlanGrubb and his rink of Nosha Michaels,Rod Lewis and Neale Houston won 22 17 against StevePallot and his rink of Stan Myers, Ian Caines and Banger Harvey. Ryan Marston and his rink of Tony Knipping, Josh Kennedy and Paul Sherman had a25–17win over Jayde Leech and his rink of Michelle Muccillo,Jan Rudy and Barry Hawkett. KevinLovett and his rinkofBrian Carpenter, Jo-Anne Michaels and George Lambos had a21–12win over Sandy Caines and his rinkof Paul Louis Read, Bob Rennie and Ted Kuklinsky. Completing the sweep, Tommy Lodge and his rink of Dave Wurlod, John Backman and Scott Jones had a22–14win over Michael Smogavec and his team of Jan Parniak, Brian Rodgersand Stuart Caines.

 Newborough 18 -90defeated Moe 0-60

TRARALGON RSL had agood win at home against Morwell.Alan Kanavanand his rink of Garry Trewin, Titch Hore and Rick Lukey had a24–14win over Keith Gadsby and his rink of Jodie Ashby, Kevin Pigdon and Laurie Melhuish. Ross Sizeland and his rink of Peter Barnes, Chris Mackintosh and John Taylor had a25–16win over David Cook and his rink of Danny McKeown, Mike Arnold and Ernie King. Beau Williamson and his rink of Gordon Bayley, Dave Morley and Terry Hunter had a20–15win over Ron Lyfield and his rink of Ross Harford, Brian Kingsley and Chris Goldsbrough. Dave Hodson and his rink of Eric Warfe, Ross McKenzie and Kevin Durwood had a21–15win overNathanCook andhis rink of Sarah Ashby, Alex Muirhead and Russell Williams.

 Traralgon RSL 18 –90defeated Morwell 0-60

DIVISION 2

MORWELL Club looked set to continue their unbeaten rununtil the last endatNewborough (2). Starting the last end one shot up, Neil Whitelaw and his rink of Steve Kilpatrick, David Patience and David Stevens losttwo shotsonthe final end, leaving Graham Cocks and his team of John Arnold, Mary Whelan and Phil Marston the winners 20 –14. Robbert Cook and his rink of Dave Madden, John Hannant and Michael Weatherall had a21–14win over Tara Harle and her team of Michael Skinner, Alan Campbell and Roger Rejmer. For the visitors, Brett Harle and his team of Dashaa Martin,Mil Karleusa and Wayne Arnold had a27-16win over Koan Goldie and her rinkof Bob Goldie, Julie Jacksonand Alan Ryan. Glenn Trembath and his rink of Vaughan Reimers, David Broadbent and Nobby Noblett had a22–21win over Spencer Goss.

 Newborough (2) 14 –78defeated Morwell Club 4-78

TRARALGON (2) travelled to Drouin (2) and for the visitors, BillFrancis and his rinkofJeddLadgrove, Al Hegarty and Trevor James had a25–12win over Arthur Moore and Dave Currie, and his rink of Tom Irvine, Kathy Smiles and Graham Cross defeated Col Jeffrey 23 –17. For the home team, Brian Thorpe and his rink of Norm Dickson,Elaine Thorpe and Terry McFadzean had a27–23win over Maurie Sutcliffe. David Tayles and AbeRoeder drew 19 –19.

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Traralgon (2) 15 –90defeated Drouin (2) 3-75

TRARALGON RSL(2) travelled to Neerim District and for the home team, Peter Throup and his rink of Karren Sheers, Ray Throup and Pat Fraser-Aurisch had a26– 9win overGordon Asbury. Peter Brooks and histeam of Chris Hogan, Robert Cook and Trevor Kuhnell had a31–13win over Ron Osler. Neil Adams and his rink of Colin McKay, Jim Fallon and Angus McGillivray won 23 –17over Brian Wilkinson, and to complete the sweep, Shane Hogan and his rink of Russell Meehan, Ross Pollard and Ray Watts had a43–8 win over Alan Jones.

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Traralgon RSL (2) 18 -96defeated Newborough (2) 0-64

THORPDALEtravelled to Longwarry and found the going tough. Adam Proctorand his rinkof Grant Pask, Col Finger and John McCarthy won 40 –8over Danny Vanzuylen. Ken Towt, and his rink of Hank Metselaar, Robert Proctor and Peter Lieshout had a35–12win over Dwayne Gunn. RussellWhite and his rink of Mark Serong, John Majkut and Jason Lieshout had 20 –13win over Ben Powell Trevor Kitchen, and his rink of Glenn Pask, Ian Peterson and Ken White had a32–16 win over Brendan Jennings.

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Longwarry18–127 defeated Thorpdale 0-49

DIVISION 3

BOOLARA welcomed Moe (2) and for the visitors, Lorraine Horton and her rink of Hilda Woods, Ros Martin and Leigh Dodd had a22–12win over Darren Napier and John Woods, and his rink of Charles McArthur, Robyn Dodd and Michael Rudy had a23–13win over David Caldwell. Wim Deteringhad a21–14win overTerry Parker. For thehome team, Travis Baker ad his rink of Bruce Davey, Eddie Dudek and Stan Williams had a 28 –12win over Val Griffiths.

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Moe(2) 16 –78defeated Boolarra 2- 67

TRARALGON (3) welcomed Yinnar and for the home team, May Cross and her rink of John Kong, Greg Swan and Max Cumming had a22– 15 win

over Tim Roche. Brendon Smiles defeated Murray De La Haye 23 –18and Gordon Slimmon had a 16 –13win over Gavin Osborne. Luka Djudurovic salvaged two points for Yinnar with a17–14win over Cary Locke.

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Traralgon (3) 16 –75defeated Yinnar 2- 63 GARFIELD welcomed Warragul (2) and for the home team, Nick Henwood and his rink of Les Pumphrey, GaryPayneand Steve Bassed had a 27 –16win over Noel Rubenstein. Tom Cleary defeated Greg Mitchell 17 –13and Stephen Whyte defeated David Gatewood 23 –15. For the visitors, Bob Currie and his rink of Brian Barby, Bruce Thompson and Peter Ellis had a25–10win over Shane Oliver. 

Garfield 16 -72defeated Warragul (2) 2- 69 MORWELL (2) welcomed Newborough (3) and for the home team, John Osborne and his rink of Ron Daegeer, John Kuhne and Jack Prendergast hada29–7win over Ed Whelan, Gerry Van Duin defeatedPeterPolicha19– 16 and Ken Turner defeated Alan Luck 24 –18. For the visitors Jim Cuthbertson and his rink of Chris Wagstaff, Ryan Lambos and Ann-Mary Ryan defeated Bob Skinner 21 –13. 

Morwell (2) 16 -85defeated Newborough (3) 2-62

DIVISION 4

TRAFALGAR (2) welcomed Warragul (3) and the hjometeam won all four rinks. Mal Clymoand his rink of George Ward, Alex Brodieand Peter Watson had a32–7 win over Russell Carrick. Darryl Horner defeated Bill Clarke 26 –6,Frank Farrugia defeatedBrent Grigg 29 –12and Anthony Mithinson defeated Bernie McIntosh 23 –12.

Trafalgar (2) 18 -110 defeated Warragul (3) 0-37

MORWELL (3) travelled to Newborough (4) and for the visitors, GrahamHutchinson and his rink of Pauline Betteley, Max Duncan and Peter Borrodale had a35–8win over Chris Cunningham. Bob D’Brass and his rink of Steve Postlewaite, John Woischuk and Keith Higgs had a29-17 win over Charlie Cadby. For the home team, Eagle Edwards defeated Rita Reddies 23 –15and Steve Cunningham drew with Trevor Curtis 18 –18.  Morwell (3) 15 –97defeated Newborough (4) 3-66

YARRAGONwelcomed YallournNorth and had a convincing victory, with Sam Mazza and his rink of Ross McDermott, Rhett Galley and Marjan Pazek

winning30– 8against John Wasiukiewicz.Jarrod Grigg had a20–17win over Darren Fry, Kevin Arnold had a27– 12 win over Rob Matthews and Jason Roberts had a19– 17 win overRicky Hearn  Yarragon 18 –96defeated YallournNorth 0-54

CHURCHILL welcomed Traralgon (4), with the visitors winning by three shots in aclose affair. For the visitors, Bill Bishopand hisrinkofJenni Pierce, Ross Smith and Barry Roscholler had a28–12win over BillBrown andStuart Hulse had a27–22win over Craig Flanigan. The home teamdid well with Chris Thomas defeating Col Mayman 18 –15and Cath Dodds defeating Norbert Schoeter 22 –15.  Traralgon (4) 16 –85defeated Churchill 4-82

DIVISION 5

MORWELL (4) 16 –51defeated Trafalgar (3) 0– 51 with Bob Lorenzand his rinkofSteve Sykes, AlexMonroe andDaryl Colemanwinning24–16; Joel Brooks won 19 –18and Glenn Watkins 19 –17.

Traralgon RSL (3)14– 56 defeated Traralgon(5) 2–51, with Margaret Morley and her rinkofJohn Eaton, Craig Smith and Barbara Evans winning 20 –12, John Farquhar had a20–14and for the visitors, Brian Johnson won 25 –16.

Longwarry (2) 12 –65defeated Garfield (2) 4-58, with Barry White and his rink of Laraine Bluck, Sharon Twite and Elio Megetto winning 36 –10, and for Garfield, Damien Brick won 24 –16and Gerald Wakefield won 24 –13.

Neerim District (2) 16 –59defeated Drouin (3) 0–51, with Greg Bond and hisrink of Richard Kerr, Gerald Winter and Mal Collins winning 23 –18, Jim Schroeder won 19 –18and John Rochford won 17 –15.

Morwell Club (2) 16 –100 defeated Moe (3) 0–35 BerylNoblett andher rink of Bernie Marino, Geoff Unwin and Lisa Arnold winning 37 –11, Andrew Shepley won 37 –13and Gail Rejmer 26 –11.

DIVISION 6

YALLOURN North (2) 10 –48defeated Morwell Club (3) 0–20, Boolarra (2) 10 –74defeated Yinnar/Churchill 0–23, Drouin (4) 10 -42defeated Thorpdale (2) 0–29, Yallourn North(3) 10 –16 defeated Newborough(5) 0–0,Traralgon(6) 5–39 drewwith Trafalgar (4) 5–39, Neerim District (3) 10 -16defeatedTraralgon RSL(3) 0– 0.

SATURDAY Pennant takesabreak this week to allow players to participate in the Victorian Open Championships at Shepparton.

Roll gold: Bowlershaveenjoyed getting back onto thegreen forthe newseason.

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LVDCL SCOREBOARD

ROUND 6

Morwell innings

MCukier. bBurcombe 43

SMooney. bMcCol 11

BClymo cBurrowsb Varghese 25

BMills bMcColl 79 CSeymour cMcColl bMaynard. 2 JCampbell cBurcombe bMcColl 56 BBrincat bMcColl 4 GHarvey. cBurcombe bMaynard. 7 LGettings bMcCol 0 TPickering not out 3 Extras (nb 6, w9,b1,lb3). 19

Total. 9/249

Raidersbowling:M Perera 10-0-48-0, HMcColl 10-1-55-5, G Chesire10-1-40-0, JVarghese 5-0-24-1, LMaynard10-0-38-2, A Burcombe 5-0-40-1

Raiders innings

MDyke. bHarvey. 19 LMaynard. lbw bBrincat 13 ABurcombe bHarvey. 10 MPerera. cCukier bWhelpdale 8 BBurrows. cCampbell bWhelpdale 0 MMacFarlane bWhelpdale 1 GChesire. cCampbell bHarvey. 4 THutchinson bHarvey. 22 CMills lbw bHarvey. 0 HMcColl bHarvey. 4 JVarghese not out 1 Extras (nb 0, w7,b0,lb0). 7

Total. 89

Morwell bowling: BBrincat 7-0-34-1, LGettings 4-0-19-0, GHarvey 9.5-3-11-6, RWhelpdale 5-2-14-3, CSeymour 2-0-11-0

Latrobe innings

JColtman bColgrave 11

AMeenakshi cPhilip bGrant 28

BZomer bGrant 25

SFreshwater bBlunt 1

ABloomfield lbw bGrant 9

RChokununga. bGrant 2

MZomer cPhilip bSavige. 15

ADuncan cBaldi bSavige. 14 JBloomfield st Kane bAtkinson 0

TGamage r. runout (Blunt/Kane) 7

LDuncan not out 0 Extras (nb 1, w13, b1,lb5). 20

Total. 132

Moe bowling: RColgrave 6-0-31-1, CTaylor6-0-16-0, RBlunt 10-1 26-1, CGrant 10-4-14-4, JAtkinson9-3-9-1, ASavige8.4-0-30-2 Moe innings

RBaldi. cFreshwater bA Bloomfield 29

NKane cMeenakshi bJBloomfield 0

APhilip lbw bBloomfield 33

CGrant cLDuncan bFreshwater 5

ASavige. st ADuncan bA Bloomfield 5

PSpiteri. bZomer 18

JAtkinson. runout (LDuncan/A Duncan) 8

RColgrave not out 14 CTaylor. not out 2

Extras(nb 0, 216, b2,lb2). 20 Total. 7/134

Latrobe bowling: TGamage 10-0-34-0, JBloomfield 9-0-32-1, B Zomer 9.1-0-30-1, ABloomfield 10-3-22-3, SFreshwater 7-3-12-1

Traralgon West innings

BEdebohls c& bSmith 72

HKimpton cGregor bThillekarathna 9

IZafar cGregor bCarnes. 23

RWilkie cHewawasam bCarnes. 17

JMonacella cLaaks bGregor 38

TFitch not out. 19

MGriffiths runout 1

DCooke not out. 8

Extras (nb 1, w29, b1,lb5). 36 Total. 5/223

Jeeralang-Boolarrabowling: NThillekarathna 5-1-26-1, DGregor 4-1-30-0, BMcCormack8-0-32-0, JCarnes10-1-36-3, SDeSilva 6-0-32-0, LSmith 4-0-14-1, HHewawasam 10-1-29-0, BHeath 3-0-18-0

Jeeralang-Boolarra innings

ARanthilakage cZafar bFalla 18

LSmith cWilkieb Falla 15

BHeath cKimpton bThow. 24

KRanthilakage bFitch 16

NThillekarathna cMonacella bZafar 39 BMcCormack. cWilkieb Thow 5 TLaaks cCooke bThow. 7

SDeSilva runout (Zafar/Kimpton) 0 HHewawasam not out 32 JCarnes. not out 12 Extras (nb 2, w11, b1,lb0). 14 Total. 8/183

TraralgonWest bowling: BEdebohls 3-0-16-0, RFalla10-2-28-2, TFitch 10-0-25-1, AThow10-1-32-3, HKimpton 10-1-39-0, IZafar 5-0-26-1, RWilkie2-0-16-0

Willow Grove innings

JHammond lbw bWebber 6

BHams lbw bStuart. 9

NWheildon lbw bStuart. 36

NPerkins bStuart. 2 PGrima bStuart. 0

SDawson cHouriganbRawson 13 NWeatherhead bRawson 35 KMulley. cDoble bHourigan 0 Dvan derStoep runout (Speairs/Doble) 4 DWalsh runout (Speairs/Doble) 4 Jvan derSteop not out 0 Extras (nb 0, w11, b0,lb0). 11

Total. 120

Centrals bowling: RWebber 8-4-13-1, RHefer 10-2-29-0, JStuart 10-0-19-4, MRawson 10-0-21-2, CPollard 5.4-0-32-0, THourigan 3-1-6-1

Centrals innings

WHenry. cHammond bWalsh 40 MRawson cWalsh bGrima 4 LSpeairs cHams bGrima 0 THourigan. cGrima bvan der Stoep 27 RHefer cDawson bWalsh 3 RWebber st Hams bWalsh 3 BWilliamson st Hams bWalsh 2 JStuart. c&b Weatherhead 5 BDoble not out 7 SGray. not out 3 Extras (nb 1, w25, b0,lb1). 27

Total. 8/121

WillowGrove bowling: NWheildon 10-2-27-0, PGrima 10-1-23-2, N Weatherhead 8-2-16-1, DWalsh 10-2-19-4, JHammond 1-0-8-0, D vander Stoep 7.3-0-27-1

Mirboo North innings

BPedlow. cConnollybHoldsworth. 35

ZHollis. cL Whiteb RWhite. 25

LCorry. cDurkin bConnolly. 0

JAlexander cGeorgebConnolly. 0

WCheatley. lbw bGeorge 19

DDavis cHoldsworthb Connolly 29

HBarnes lbw bGeorge 0

MWoodall cGeorgeb Connolly. 6

WLawrey runout (R White/George) 8

AThomas not out 1

DBanks bConnolly. 0

Extras (nb 2, w10, b0,lb4). 16

Total. 139

Trafalgar bowling: JNoonan 10-4-11-0, ZBrown 10-0-21-0, O McLeod-Agland 6-0-31-0, AConnolly8.5-0-25-5, RWhite 3-0-15-1, RHoldsworth3-0-9-1, AGeorge 8-1-20-2

Trafalgar innings

AGeorge cCheatleyb Thomas 10

LWhite st Davis bThomas 16

RHoldsworth. cDavis bWoodall 9

AConnolly. cThomas bAlexander 40

RWhite. cCheatleyb Alexander 10

CParnall lbw bAlexander 1

JNoonan cDavis bLawrey 13

OHennessy. runout (L Corry/Alexander) 2

OMcLeod-Agland st Davis bAlexander 11

LDurkin runout (Lawrey). 5

ZBrown not out 1

Extras (nb 0, w11, b0,lb2). 13

Total. 131

Mirboo Northbowling:A Thomas 10-2-18-2, WCheatley 7-1-25-0, MWoodall 7-1-14-1, DBanks 4-0-10-0, ZHollis 5-1-12-0, J Alexander 8-1-23-4, WLawrey 8-0-27-1

CHURCHILL vCATS(Abandoned)

Morwell mauls Raiders

CRICKET LVDCL

By LIAM DURKIN

FINALLY, some cricket in the Latrobe Valley and District Cricket League.

After five frustrating weeks, all but one match went ahead.

MORWELL made an ominous start to their campaign.

The Tigers weresent in by Raiders at Yinnar, who were made to rue to decision afew hours later.

Morwell closed at 9/249, with Blake Mills topscoringon79from71balls.

Jordan Campbell also contributed afine 56, combining with Mills for a94-runstand.

Further up top, opening bat Mark Cukier made 43 and Blair Clymo 25 -18ofwhich camein boundaries.

Bean-pole Raiders quick Harry McColl picked up where he left off last season, continuing his wicket-taking ways with 5/55.

McColl did his club championship points no harm, with four wickets disturbing the timber.

Raiders skipper Liam Maynard chipped in with 2/38.

Maynard then went out to open the batting, and had Matt Dyke for company.

Dyke was available to play for Raiders as his registered club Ex Students had abye in the Traralgon District Cricket Association.

The pair took the total to 32, but once Maynard fell, things quickly went south.

Raiders lost 3/22, and then their innings unravelled completely, losing their next five wickets for eight runs.

Greg Harvey ran riot for the visitors, ending with figures of 6/11 from 9.3 overs to see Raiders shot out for just 89.

He too didhis club championship pointsnoharm, with five unassisted wickets.

Off spinner Ross Whelpdale took 3/14 against his old club to see Morwell win with abonuspoint.

Gotta love abonus point.

MOE won agrind againstLatrobe.

Taking to alush Racecourse Turf, the Sharks batted first and put together atotal of 132.

Conditions were hard-goingfor batsman, and hardly any boundaries were hit.

Anu Meenakshi top scored with 28, followed by fellow left hander Benn Zomer who made 25.

The leading light with the ball for Moe was new recruit Callum Grant, who returned great figures of 4/14 off10overs with four maidens.

Ash Savige was also productive, ending with2/30

The Lions took the game to the 46th over, and got home with three wickets in the shed.

At 5/82 the game was wide open, but some cool heads downthe order ensuredMoe started life back in Premier Awith awin.

Andrew Philip laid astableplatform at the top, making 33, along with Riley Baldi who scored 29.

Just the five boundaries were hit during Moe’s innings, further emphasising the challenges presented.

By all reports, Baldi was playing plenty of good shotsfor one, absolutely creaming balls only for them to dieinthe outfield.

The evergreen Anthony Bloomfield took3/22 off his 10 overs.

While disappointed not to get the win, anice moment came when Liam Duncan combined with his dad Adam to complete arun out.

TheseniorDuncan,inhis usualwicket-keeping post, receivedathrowfrom junior to see Moe bats man Jarryd Atkinson short of his ground.

Afather-and-soncombining for arun out in A Grade in any league would be extremely rare.

TRARALGON WEST made it back-to-back wins.

The Eagleswon ahigh-scoring gameonthe Boolarra hard stuff.

Batting first, the visitors closed at 5/223.

Ben Edebohls made 72 openingthe batting, and could well have found anew position.

Another to keep the scorer busy was Josh Monacella, who made 38.

Jacob Carnes was the best bowler for the Panthers, taking 3/36 off his 10.

Jeeralang-Boolarra’s chase was plaguedbya number of players getting starts.

The top five all got to doublefigures, butonly Nila Thillekarathnawas able to make much of an impression with 39.

Some late hitting fromHasithaHewawasam, who made 32, kept spectators entertained, but in the end, the Panthers fell 40 runs short.

Aftercompulsory close, Jeeralang-Boolarrahad registered 8/183.

AdamThowtook 3/32 bowling his leg breaks, while the Eaglesfound success with the ball going the other way, as Reece Falla nabbed 2/28.

WILLOW GROVE wasasked to have ahit by Centrals.

In what was the first AGrade matchatWillow Grove since the 1980s, the Wolves managed a total of 120.

Thetwo Nathan’s, Wheildon and Weatherhead, scored 36 and 35 respectively.

Joe Stewart took 4/19 for the Lions.

Centrals was made to work for the points, and won with two wickets in hand in the 48th over.

After slumping to 2/12,captainTye Hourigan set about stabilising the situation, making 27, along with Wayne Henry who scored 40.

However, afterHourigan departed with the score 3/76, things took adramatic twist, and the Lions were suddenly 5/90.

Afamous win was well and truly on the cards for Willow Grove, especially when the scoreboard read 7/107.

The 14 runs needed for victory may have felt like 140 for Centrals, but they were able to sneak across the line.

Darcy Walsh proved ahandful, taking 4/19, as did Pete Grima who nabbed 2/23.

Although it is very early days, the new kids on the blockfrom Willow Grovecertainly haven’t been hammered in their two games to date.

The Wolveshave battedclose to 50 overs on bothoccasions so far this season, and afirst-up win might just be around the corner.

Lookingatthe line-up, I’ve certainly seen worse AGrade teams.

Hell, I’ve even played in some. MIRBOO NORTH found itself involved in a second thriller in as many weeks.

The Tigersdefeated Trafalgar by eightruns, with the match coming down to the penultimate over.

Thewin wasmeritoriousfor Mirboo North,who were forced to field with 10 following an injury to

opening batsman Brett Pedlow.

Conversely for Trafalgar, to fail to chase agettable totalwhenthere was an extragap in the field was certainly abitter pill to swallow.

Pedlow top-scored with 35, and received good support from fellow opener Zac Hollis who made 25.

Aslightside-story to the day was Pedlow, the principal at Trafalgar High School, playing against students Olly Hennessy and Owen McLeod-Agland in the Trafalgar team.

Ultimate bragging rights were on the line when McLeod-Agland was bowling to Pedlow.

Runs were hard to come by at Trafalgar, due to longerboundariesthan the 55-metre miscalculation the previous week, and some very tight bowling from Ships opener Jackson Noonan.

Noonan wentfor just 11 runsoff 10 straight overs. To give you an idea of how well he bowled, his figures would havestill looked tidybowling at Ted Summerton done up for the Stars game this weekend.

Pedlow and Hollis batted until the first drinks break, putting on a52-runpartnership.

Pedlow was forced to try and hit out after he pinged acalf, and consequentlyhit acatch to Aydan Connolly on the ring at mid on.

Connolly bowled aspell from either end, taking two wickets initially before coming back as all good captains do to try and clean up the tail.

He did this, ending with 5/28, his secondfive-for in as many gamesagainst theTigers.

AidenGeorge operated at the other end,and took two wickets, even finding himself on ahat-trick Dom Davis battedwith the lower order, and made avaluable 29 off 34 balls for Mirboo North.

The Trafalgarchase startedsteadily, but the Ships failed to really get going at any stage.

Aloss of patience led to aloss of wickets, which reduced the batting effort to 3/39 and then 5/65.

Mirboo Northwas very disciplined with the ball, not searching for wickets, and maintaining pressurewhichled to afew soft dismissals on Trafalgar’s part.

Tiger opener Anton Thomasgave littleaway, taking theopening two wickets and only going for 18 off 10 overs.

Connollyweatheredmuch of the storm, and batted through while wickets fellatthe other end.

As the game wore on, it became clear the Ships’ best chance of winning would be to take the game deep.

With 40 to get off 10 overs, time was never going to be an issue. But with only three wickets in hand, Connolly needed support.

Trafalgar got it down to 12 off 14, before Connolly shelled acatch to mid on, bringing his fighting innings of 40 to an end.

From there, the last wicketpair for Trafalgar hit and ran, and come the last ball of the 49th over, they agreed to run on anything.

The plan resulted in arun-out that very ball, as the Trafalgar non-striker (who this writer knows very well) couldn’t get back in time.

Mirboo North skipper Jed Alexander ended with 4/23 for the 10-man Tigers.

POOR old CATS still haven’t got on the park in season 2022/23.

The reigning Premier Apremier’s match against Churchill at George Cain Oval was abandoned due to ground conditions.

Sweet likesugar: MarkCukiermadeagood starttothe seasonfor Morwell, scoring 43.

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Cameron Graham and Glengarryoncloud 9

CRICKET TDCA

HOW good are turf wickets.

The hard-working curators in the Traralgon DistrictCricket Association were finallyrewarded for their efforts over what has been the wettest start to acricket season on record.

Finally, afull round of matches was played last weekend, although for some clubs, they probably wished they hadn’t.

GLENGARRY welcomed Gormandale to Fred King Oval.

It wasboth clubs’ secondgamefor the season, with Glengarryplayingtheir first last weekend while Gormandale hadn’t played since Round 4. Winning the toss and batting on apitch which had something in it for batsmen and bowlers, Glengarry got off to adecent start with the score building quicklythanks largelytoGormandale bowling too many extras.

However, afew wickets had Frank Marks (out to aterrific catch),AlJenkinand Nat Freitag back in the shedswiththe score on 61.The Tigersneeded to capitalise on the fact they had gottenout the Glengarry ‘Big 3’.

Unfortunately forthe Tigers, somedropped catchesand more extras meant the scorecontinued to riseeventhoughhardly any were coming off the bat.

Some late order hitting from Paul Henry (37 not out), Cam Graham (27)and Ben Marks (13) got the scoreupto6/203atcompulsory close.

In the breakdown of the innings, Glengarry hit eightsixes for atotal of 48 runs and Gormandale helped the Magpies by giving away 41 extras with 28 of those being wides.Takethese bad balls away and the Tigersare playing awhole different game; certainly something the coach needs to work on at training this week.

Yohan Soyzawas the pick of the bowlers for the away team, taking 2/12 from his 10 overs in afine display of control, while the other multiple wicket-takerwas Campbell Peavey, who took 2/36 bowling well with the new ball.

Gormandale threw caution to the wind to start their innings as Nat Campbell played his shots from ballone until he was caught on the boundary by Jenkin off the bowling of Cam Graham in his fourth over.

Nobody could have predicted what would come next.

The Cam Grahamperfect storm appeared at Fred King Oval and Gormandale played the role of the Andrea Gail.

The Tigers couldn’t escape as Grahamhad a swinging Duke ball in his hand, awicket with a slope to rivalLords,atmosphericconditionsperfect for swing bowling and an underdone batting list to bowl at.

From his fourth over, where he got his first wicket, he then took his next in the fifth bowling Yohan Soyza for six.

Graham’s sixth over was his most destructive, bowling atriple wicket maiden (allbowled) before getting wickets in his eighth, ninth and another twoinhis last over to finish with the incredible figures of 9/21 from 9.3 overs. He bowled five batsmen along the way to destroy Gormandale for 59 runs.

To put this remarkable effort into perspective,it is Glengarry’s best ever bowling effort, surpassing Adam Brady’s8/12back in the 2016/17 semi-final; the first nine wicket haul in AGrade since Nat Campbell claimed 9/46 back in 2016/17 (ironically, Brady and Campbell were both part of this nine wicket spell)and the thirdbest bowling figures of all timeinAGrade.Heonly now sits behind Harold Graham, who took 9/8 in 1930/31 for St James, and Jon Stuckey who claimed 9/18 for the Demons in 1962/63. An amazing achievement.

YARRAM andDistrict took on Imperials at Catterick Crescent.

The fact the game was able to get up at all is an incredible testament to Imperials, who put in the time and effort to ensure their ground, which a weekago resembled something of aricepaddy field, got amatch played on it for the first time this year.

Yarram won the toss and decided to bat.

Jack Moore got off to aflyer, but Matt Garland was removed for aduck, and when number three Daniel O’Keefe was dismissed by Scott Aitken for two, the Pelicans were in trouble at 3/33.

Dylan Rashgot to work though and together with Ben Layton, steadied the ship until Layton (18) was out to Tom Starkey with the score on 95.

Wickets continued to fall but the score continued to climb, and what could have been ahugescore was snuffed out when Anthony Scott, batting at number seven, was dismissed for 37 from just 23 balls, which included three big sixes.

Still, Yarram &District reached atotal of 202, being dismissed in the 40th over with Rash

top-scoring with awell made 66 from 68 balls, while English import Tom Starkey was best with the ball, claiming 4/32 from nine overs.

As has been the case so far this season for Imperials, Ryan Morley has been required to shoulder most of the run-scoring burden, and although he top-scored again in this game, it wasn’t enough. When he was dismissed for 16 with the score on 27 it was going to be tough for Imperials to regroup.

Only one more batsman was able to make double figures, as Imperials was dismissed in the 24th over for 66.

Kelly Griffiths took 3/11 with the new Duke, and BraydenAskew chimedinwith two of his own, butitwas Jack Collinswho was the pickofthe bowlers, walking away with 5/28 in afine display of pace bowling.

This win now has Yarramfirmly in the top four, whileImperials has slipped out to fifth.

TOONGABBIE continued on their winning way, downing Rovers at Duncan Cameron Park.

It was aday wherebatting first was the right thingtodo, and although the Rams were shaky at the start, afourth wicket partnership of 143 between Rob Wheildon and Kevin Stoddart set up amassive total of 7/252 after 50 overs.

Keenan Hughes,Tim Dunn and Gerard McIlroy chimed in for quick runs at the end of theinnings, but Wheildon, who finished on 81 from 118 balls and Kev Stoddart, who made64from 94, werethe stars of the show.Things couldhave been different if Wheildon wasn’t dropped before scoring.

Rovers didn’t help themselves by adding 47 runs to the score in extras, with 30 of those being wides. Still, Lachlan Patterson toiled hard to walk away with four wickets and Jack Lynch collected two of his own.

Rovers pushed the Rams when it was their turn to bat, with acouple gettingstarts and Ewan Williams continuing his superb form with agood 60 from 57 balls. But the Rams had all the answers to any Rovers questions, and were able to break partnerships when required.

Some late hitting fromthe best number 11 in the TDCA Jack Lynch helped get the score up to

arespectable 197, but it was still 55 shy of where they needed to be.

Toongabbie’s spinners gotalittle tap but Sam Moran (3/51) and Matt Barry (2/58) were still the best for the visiting side.

This win cements Toongabbieinthe topfour for at least another two weeks, while Rovers are languishing at the bottom of the ladder with Glengarry coming up next week.

EX STUDENTS had the bye.

BGrade

PREMIERSHIP favourite Yarram&District was downed by Imperials, who batted first at Tarraville, making 128.

Darren Warwick was the best with the bat for Imperials, making 35, while Tyler Chisholm took 4/12 for the Pelicans.

Imperials bowled well and bundled outthe home team for 71, with Ryan Bosch the destroyertaking 4/24.

Glengarry had agood win over Gormandale, as Jay Francis’ 54 helped the Magpies to 205 before Gormandale was all out for 100.

Tom Gafa took 5/35 for the Tigersand Gavin Swan made ahard-hitting 51, but it was James Porter and Andrew Winter who did the damage for Glengarry, taking three wickets each

Toongabbie had abig winover Rovers, making 4/292, with Matthew Stoddart (80), Michael Dunn (90not out) and Adam Hood (96) doing most of the damage against last year’s premier.

Jordan Pearce was good for the boys in blue making 47, but Roverscould stillonly muster 7/130, losing by 162 runs.

CGrade

ROVERS 5/136 defeated Glengarry 10/117; Imperials 1/98 defeatedToongabbie 6/91; Ex Students 4/158 defeated Yarram District 9/154.

TDCA SCOREBOARD

AGRADE -ROUND 7

Glengarryinnings

NAllen cJacobsen bScammell 10

AJenkin bPeavey. 20 FMarks. cScammell bPeavey. 8

NFreitag cJacobsen bSoyza 16 CGraham. cPeaveybBrady 27 PHenry. not out 37 SMarks cSwitzer bSoyza 29 BMarks not out 13 Extras (nb 4, w28, b1,lb8). 41 Total. 6/203

Gormandalebowling: CPeavey9-0-36-2,EJarvis 4-029-0,Y Soyza 10-3-12-2,A Brady10-0-35-1, NScammell 7-0-39-1,N Campbell 10-2-36-0

Gormandale innings

MHibbs cFreitag bMerton. 15 NCampbell cJenkin bGraham 23

YSoyza bGraham 6

JJacobsen bGraham. 0 CPeavey. bGraham. 0 TSwitzer bGraham. 0 HRichards lbw bGraham 3 ABrady bGraham 1

TReynolds. cAllen bGraham 0 EJarvis not out 0 NScammell lbw bGraham 0

Extras (nb 0, w5,b0,lb2). 7 Total. 59

Glengarrybowling: CGraham 9.3-2-21-9,C WaackHawkins 4-0-27-0,MMerton5-1-8-1

Yarram District innings

JMoore. bStarkey 25

MGarland cRickwood bAitken. 0

DO’Keefe. cThompson bAitken. 2 DRash cAitken bStarkey.....................66

BLayton. cDowns bStarkey 18

MLush st Downs bDunstan 8

AScott. cStarkey bThompson 37

GUnderwood lbw bWilliams 12 KGriffiths bStarkey 1

DBrinker-Ritchie.not out 0

JCollins cMorleyb Thompson.................0

Extras (nb 0, w22, b1,lb5,pen 5) 33 Total. 202

Imperials bowling: TStarkey 9-1-32-4,S Aitken 5-2-19-2 RWilliams 9-1-27-1, DThompson 6-1-38-2, PDunstan 9-0-57-1, LBalakrishnan 2-0-18-0

Imperials innings

RMorley..............cScottb Collins 16

TStarkey cBrinker-Ritchie bGriffiths 6 SAitken. cLush bCollins 2

JJennings cAskew bCollins.... 0

JDowns bGriffiths 1

RParekh bCollins 2

RWilliams cAskew bGriffiths 6

LBalakrishnan bCollins 2 PDunstan. bAskew 0 DThompson........not out.........................................2 LRickwood bAskew 13

Extras (nb 1, w12, b0,lb3). 16

Total. 66

Yarram District bowling:D O’Keefe3-0-17-0, KGriffiths 8-3-11-3, JCollins9-1-28-5, BAskew 3.1-0-7-2

Toongabbie innings

TShippen cPearce bLynch 0 DBarry bPatterson 6 RWheildon bPatterson................................81 JChalmers. cD Williams bMason 3 KStoddart. bLynch.....................................64

KHughes cCoad bPatterson 21 TDunn not out 17

GMcIlroy cE Williams bPatterson 13 Extras (nb 1, w30, b2,lb14) 47 Total. 7/252(

Rovers bowling: JLynch 10-2-51-2, EWilliams10-0-32-0, OMason10-0-39-1, LPatterson 9-0-52-4,S Duff 8-0-40 0, DDuncan2-0-12-0,D Williams 1-0-10-0

Rovers innings

OMason cMoran bHughes 0

TPearce bBarry. 18 LLittle bStoddart. 10 DWilliams lbw bMoran 19 EWilliams runout (Stoddart/Dunn) 60 DDuncan bMoran 4 LPatterson lbw bBarry. 3 WCoad. runout (Hughes/Moran) 16 SDuff. not out 17

CSchmidt cunknown bMoran 0

JLynch runout (Hughes/Wheildon) 24 Extras (nb 1,

Remarkable: GlengarrybowlerCameron Graham returned theastonishingfigures of 9/21atthe weekend photograph supplied

Bocce-raffa action coming to Morwell

MORWELL will host to the champions of bocce this weekend.

Australia’s best bocce-raffa players are coming to town for the 2022 Australian Bocce Raffa Open Championships.

Bocce-Raffa is bocce played with coloured bowls insteadofthe brassmetal bowls that mostwould be familiarseeing in theparks and picnics.

TheItalian Australian Club, is set to come alivetolots of colour on the courts as men and women players compete.

The club has hosted anumberofbocce events this year, including the national championship, and is rated as one of the premier bocce facilities in the country.

Players from Sydney, Melbourne, regional NSW, and Victoria will all be competing to win the prize monies on offer.

Team Australiaplayers returning from the recent World Championships in Mersin, Turkey, will also be competing, which includes Morwell’s own Dianne Penney.

Bocce Australia president Frank Funarisaid it was always apleasure to come to Morwell.

“It is a great coup for the Morwell bocce com munity to have another national event hosted at the club,” he said.

“The winning men’s and the women’s doubles team from this event (the Australian RaffaOpen Championship) will be eligibletocompete in Kota Bharu Kelantan, Malaysia championshipwhich will be played in fivedisciplines; Single Men, Single Women, Double Men, Double Women and Mixed Double, with the top three rankedfor each discipline to qualified for World Championship 2023.”

In an added boost for the sport, Bocce Australiarecently announcedformer AFL greatand Brownlow medallist Robert ‘Dipper’ DiPierdomenico as its chief ambassador.

Great weekend for the Meteors

BASKETBALL

CBL By LIAM DURKIN

ROUND 7ofthe Country Basketball League produced aboil-over.

Defending champion Traralgon lost their first game for the season, going down to Warragul 85-80.

Havinglost to the T-Birds in last season’s Grand Final, the result was some revenge for the Warriors.

Warragul took their ledger to five-wins and three-losses aftertheir win at home, putting them fifth on the ladder.

Traralgonremains on top,but hasplayed more games than every other team in the competition.

Maffra consolidated its place in the top-two after beating Morwell.

The Eagles played out acompetitive match against the Magic, winning 92-74 at Cameron Sporting Complex.

Maffra boosted their percentage the following day, annihilating Lakes Entrance 81-27 on Sunday.

The Pelicans put up abetter fight the day before, but went down 95-78 to Pakenham.

Pakenham travelled to LakesEntrance for thegame.

Aquick Google Map search shows that is a three hour trip.

Fair way to drive for agame of local basketball Moe also hadagoodgame,and an equally good win,takingdown Korumburra on their home court 91-77.

The Meteors hold fourth spot, with afour-two record after six games.

MOE hada very successful weekend, with its women’s team knocking off top-side Korumburra.

The Meteors overcame numerous challenges to win 55-48 on the road.

The win putsMoe third, and looking ominous with afive-one record.

Only ahandful of other games were played. Wins went to Traralgon (75-67 vs Warragul) andPakenham (79-54 vs Lakes Entrance). A FULL fixture is back on thecards this weekend.

Gamersfor both men and women are: Saturday; Sale vs Moe (at GRSC), MaffravsTraralgon (at Cameron Sporting Complex), Korumburravs Peninsula (at Korumburra), Sunday: Wonthaggi vs Traralgon (at Bass Coast Stadium), Moe vs Maffra (at Latrobe Leisure, Newborough), Warragul vs Pakenham (at Warragul Leisure) and Sale vs Lakes Entrance (at GRSC).

SOCCER LVSL

BY LIAM DURKIN

THE Latrobe Valley SoccerLeague held its presentation night last Friday at Morwell RSL.

Clubsfrom across the leaguegathered to celebrate the achievements of teams and individuals throughout 2022.

This season saw Falcons 2000win the men’s league title, while Moe United took out the Battle of Britain Cup Falcons also won the women’s league. Sale United claimed the Brown Huzier Cup.

The presentation was highlighted by Moe United goalkeeperPeter Albanese officially inductedasa legend of the LVSL.

Albanese was given astandingovation which lasted several minutes-afitting gesture for someone who has played with the Red Devil’s for close to 50 years.

With this being the first legend inducted into the LVSL since 2011, it is certainly not something that is handed out lightly.

The man who was inducted back in 2011, Luke Cheney, presented ‘Albo’ with his certificate.

Part of his induction speech read:

Those that know Albo would be aware that he is one of the most humble and decent blokes going around, like his soccer, he just gets in and gets the job done with minimal fuss.

Moe United provideda few statsfor me to tonight and Iwould like to highlight afew key words that show the character of this man.

Loyalty:Albo has played46straight years for Moe United, starting in juniors in 1976 where he played approximately 200 games.

Longevity: Albo then moved on to play approximately 200 reserves games andisalso around a staggering 800 senior games -and still counting.

All of the above games for the one club -his cherished Red Devils -the Moe United Soccer Club.

Ability wise he is still performing at alevel that would be theenvyofthosehalf his age,and this season he was between the sticks for the Moe Seniors as they won the Battle of Britain Cup.

Those at his club describe him as simply afreak of nature and age defying.

One can honestly not see anyone coming close to replicating the length of his career, which to date has not concluded.

In total he has been involved in five League Championships, three Battle of Britain Cups and two Grand Finals not abad resume at all.

Albo was adamant that there are still acouple of seasons left in the legs yet, and welcomedall comers to displace him from his starting position in the Moe Senior line-up!

Albanesehad previously beenmadeaware of his elevation to legend statusatMoe United’s 70th anniversary celebrations back in June.

Not one to evershowtoo muchemotionormake abig deal out of individual awards, he said at the time he was “humbled” to receive the honour, citing alove of the game as the reason he kept playing.

Maybewehave the wrongAlbanese residing in The Lodge.

LATROBE

LEAGUE Award winners 2022

of the Year

MarkCassar (Falcons 2000)

Boot Dylan Fairbrother (Newb/Yall)

BOCCE

AFL Gippsland supporting clubs to reset player points

FOOTBALL

AFL GIPPSLAND has announced an enhanced management and education program around the Player Points System (PPS) that will give clubs in the region the opportunity to have suspended penalties revoked if they meet certain requirements.

After71senior clubs from Gippsland leagueswere found by AFL Gippsland to have incorrectly allocated the PPS values of one or more playersduring the 2022 season and the clubs were subsequently sanctioned, AFL Gippsland says it is committed to delivering areinvigorated training program.

AFL Gippsland also said it wascommitted to provide greatersupport to clubsand leaguesin the region to aid PPS management.

Taking into accountfeedback from clubs, six PPS training seminars have been scheduled for February 2023.

For clubs that meet participation and general compliance requirements, AFL Gippsland will remove sanctions imposed on that club.

The move is designed to improve the integrity of

the PPS in 2023 and beyond, ease the burden on volunteers, help clubs, and ensure best-practice PPS management is adopted across the region.

AFL Gippsland region manager, Cameron McPhan, hoped the initiative would help clubs across the region.

“We have welcomed all responses received from clubs following the recent breach notices, which has pleasingly reinforced the commitment to the PPS and Allowable Player Payments (APP) and deliveredinitiativesastohow areset in Gippsland can be beneficial whilst acknowledging that all levels of the game must work in collaboration,” he said.

“Where clubs participate in the resetbyattending PPS training sessions either in person or virtually and meet minimum compliances associated with the management of the PPS for 2023, AFL Gippsland will remove the sanctions imposed on individual clubs, including the period of suspension. Areset is considerednecessary and will improve integrity in the PPSand therefore football in Gippsland.

“I am pleased that we can offer the opportunity

to revoke the suspended penalties, reset the region by supporting clubs with training, education and aregion review of PPS allocations which aligns to the compliance requirements in the policy to mitigate the risks which have been exposed at all levels during 2023.

“Clubvolunteers have recognised that breach notices were warranted and acknowledge that the PPS is necessary, howeverwere concerned that given the suspended penalties.

“Furtherincorrect assessments could occur without the additional support required from the region and thereforeprovisionsprovided to revoke the penalties have been well received by clubs across the region.”

AFLGippsland has also responded to initiatives presentedbyclubs McPhan confirmed the introduction of a Player Points Panel.

The purpose of the panel will be to consider applications from clubs for additional points and individual player requests for reassessment as provided for in the PPS policy.

“A Player Points Panel comprising of region management and independentmembers provides AFL Gippsland aplatform where specific Gippsland issuesrelevant to the management and implementation of the PPS can be assessedand considered,” he said.

“I appreciate that the influence of the PPS will vary across Gippsland; the Player PointsPanel will therefore consider reassessment submissions from players and clubs and the influences of local player pathway specific to the many varied locations within Gippsland.

“We have used this scenario as an opportunity to collectively reset as a region with leagues and clubs and collectively identify more opportunities to progress the game.

AFL Gippsland is seeking expressions of interest to join the Player PointsPanel as independent members.

West Gippsland club Warragul Industrials had avery public points-related saga play out in September, which forced the issue to become more widespread.

Local Geelong fans lapuppremiershipvictory

FOOTBALL

By ZOE ASKEW

THEREare few times in aperson’slifewhen they remember exactly where they were, who they were with, what they were doing -heck, even what they were wearing at the time of an event.

ForGeelong Football Club supporters, the 2022 AFL Grand Final is undoubtedly oneofthose times.

Claiming their 10th VFL/AFL flag in club history, the Cats demolished the SydneySwans in the Grand Final on September 24 by 81 points -the equal-fifth biggest win in Grand Final history.

On Monday November 7, Geelong supporters donning striped navy white guernseys and Cats paraphernaliaeagerlywaited in line at Traralgon Centre Plaza for their turn to get up close and personal with the 2022 Premiership Cup as part of the Cats Cup Tour.

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“We actually went to the Grand Final this year, the first time either of us has gone to aGrand Final,” Nick said.

“Itwas amazing; the atmospherewas awesome.

“CredittoSydney for sticking around; it would have been rough.”

Geelong Football Club events coordinator, Tahlia Denham, is in her first year at the club, and has nothing but praise for the organisation.

“It is agreat community base,” she said.

“Joel Selwoodhas set agreat legacy, and Ireally wanted to be apartofthat.

“Coming here, being apartofthe cup tour, Iget butterfliesseeing peoplesohappy holding the cup.

“We are sharing the win.

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“It isn’t just aclub win; it’s acommunity win, and that’s what Geelong really is, acommunity.”

“I havebarracked forGeelong my whole life,” Rob said

HolyGrail: Geelong member KerriThompson of Traralgon proudlyholdsthe 2022 Premiership Cup aloft

Diehards: Locals Nick andPeter Wilson have gottenaphotowiththe four premiership cups wonbyGeelong since 2007

In the family: Wife and husband supporters Sharon andJohn Devries of Morwell.

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